What is Public Health?
Public Health is the “science of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention” (What Is Public Health, 2009).
Public Health focuses on the prevention of disease and injury for a population rather than the treatment of disease for an individual. Public Health professionals strive to prevent disease and injury through implementing educational programs regarding healthy behaviors and health screenings, developing policies to influence behavior and environment, administering services to screen for and prevent disease, and conducting research to understand what influences disease and the most effective ways to implement and sustain preventive measures.
The National Indian Health Board is disseminating the “Restoring the Balance” brochure to the 12 I.H.S. Area Health Boards, hospitals, health clinics, health stations, and to tribal leaders throughout Indian Country.
If you are interested in ordering copies of the brochure, please click here to download the order form.
To download an electronic copy of the brochure, please click here.
For more information about the “Restoring the Balance” Tribal Public Health Brochure please feel free to contact Erica Doxzen, NIHB Public Health Programs Assistant at (202) 507-4070 or via e-mail at edoxzen@nihb.org.