Our Nations. Our Sovereignty. Our Public Health.
Examples of Public Health Activities
Public Health activities include:
- Environmental Health-
- Air quality
- Food protection
- Radiation protection
- Solid waste management
- Hazardous waste management
- Water quality
- Noise control
- Housing quality
- Environmental control of recreational areas
- Sanitation services/facilities
- Behavioral Health/Health Education-
- Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention (HIV/AIDS, herpes, HPV, etc)
- Seatbelt use and motor vehicle safety
- Unwanted pregnancy
- Cancer screening
- Tobacco use
- Alcohol & drug abuse
- Suicide prevention
- Diabetes education
- Cardiovascular disease education
- Blood pressure screening
- Stress reduction
- Prenatal care
- Immunization programs (measles, hepatitis, tetanus, etc)
- Emergency preparedness
- Biostatistics/Epidemiology-
- Determine what causes a disease or injury
- Determine what the risks of a disease or injury are
- Determine who is at risk of a disease or injury
- Determine how to prevent further incidences of disease or injury
- Determine social trends of disease or injury
- Evaluate new treatments of disease or injury
- Estimating and forecasting scenarios of disease or injury
- Explaining biological phenomena
- Health Services Administration/Management-
- Delivering effective public health services through planning, organization, policy formulation and analysis, finance, economics and marketing
- Managing human and fiscal resources of health facilities (health departments, health insurance companies, hospitals, etc)
- Maternal and Child Health-
- Advocate for maternal and child health delivery systems
- Educate on and promote maternal and child health
- Provide information and access to birth control
- Dispense vaccinations to children
- Nutrition-
- Researches how food and nutrients affect the wellness of a population
- Educate on the dangers of overeating and malnourishment
- Promote healthy eating
- Develop programs to provide healthy foods to populations and decrease unhealthy items
- International/Global Health-
- Population policy/demography globally
- Health care finance and economics globally
- Public nutrition and food security globally
- Mental health and medical anthropology globally
- Infectious disease research and control globally
- International health policy and management
- Public Health Policy-
- Legislative action at the local, state and federal level to improve health
- Advocating for public health improvements
(What Is Public Health, 2009)