What is Public Health?

1. What is Public Health? by  Andrea Johnson, Rosalande Marcellon, Daisy Marchena, Jesse McKenna, Sonia Nixon, & Catherine Taylor

2. What is Public Health?1 • Science of protecting and improving the health of communities through • Education • Promotion of healthy lifestyles • Research for disease and injury prevention • Involves studying health effects of • Genetics • Personal choices • Your enviroment • Public Health professionals want to protect populations as small as a local area or as big as the entire world!

3. What Do We Do?1 • Public health professionals and students think about prevention more than treatment  • Identify a need  • Research • Write policy • Implement an educational program • Administer services •  Why is this important? • Save health care dollars • Reduce health disparities  • Fighting for equal health care, high quality health care, and health care accessible to everyone

4. Real Life Examples2 • More than 80% of cancers are due to enviromental factors (not genetics!) • Deaths from heart disease have decreased by 60% since 1950 • Seat belts have prevented 3.8 million injuries and saved 135,000 lives since required to be worn by law • Influenza (the flu) causes 36,000 deaths each year in the United States- yearly vaccinations can save these lives THANK YOU PUBLIC HEALTH!

5. How did we do it?!What does it mean to be a public health professional? 

6. This is Public Health Video Version 1: http://www.thisispublichealth.org/schools.html#Videos

7. Health Care Finance / Economics Maternal and Child Health Communication and Health Behavioral Science Emergency Medicine Enviromental Health Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights International Health  Policy and Management Infectious Diseases Health Promotion Research and Evaluation Methods Biostatistics Epidemiology This is Public Health1

8. This is Public Health

9. American Public Health Association (APHA) Theme

10. Safety is NO Accident: Live Injury Free3 • Preventable injuries are one of the top 10 causes of death (people of all ages) • Almost 900,000 children are mistreated each year • 1 pedestrian is injured every 8 minutes in a traffic crash • 2/3 of children killed in a bicycle related death could have been saved if they were wearing a helmet

11. Safety is NO Accident: Live Injury Free3 Protect Yourself! • At Home • Maintain smoke alarms (change batteries) • Get rid of dangerous areas (uneven flooring/poor lighting) • Never leave food unattended on the stove • At Work • Wear protective equipment (ex: reflective gear, closed toe shoes) • In Your Community •  Help stop school violence and bullying

12. Safety is NO Accident: Live Injury Free3 Protect Yourself! •  At Play • Wear a bicycle or sports helmet  • Warm up before playing sports • Drink water! Stay hydrated! •  On the Move •  Wear a seatbelt... ALWAYS! •  Don't jaywalk •  No texting / eating / talking on the phone while driving •  Have a Designated Driver

13. WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?!

15. Chelsea High A sexually active teen who does not use a contraceptive (i.e. condom, birth control) has a _____% chance of becoming pregnant within a year? A. 20% B. 45% C. 100% D. 90%

16. Chelsea High Although 15–24-year-olds represent only one-quarter of the sexually active population, they account for _________% of the 18.9 million new cases of STIs each year 5. A. 10% B. 50% C. 80% D. 20%

17. Chelsea High Second hand smoke kills _____ nonsmokers each year from lung cancer 6 A. 100 B. 500 C. 1000 D. 3000

18. Chelsea High How can you protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases? A. Condoms B. Abstinence D. Answers A & B C. Birth Control

19. Chelsea High What is the leading cause of death for teens? B. Car Accidents A. Cancer     D. Suicide C. HIV

20. Chelsea High Thanks to public health efforts, which disease has been completely eradicated? A. smallpox B. hepatitis B C. malaria D. tuberculosis

21. Chelsea High What is bullying?  B. Sending flowers A. Physical Harm C. Emotional Harm D. Answers A & C

22. Chelsea High What amount of teens report being bullied at school? A. 1 out of 3 teens B. Half of teens C. All teens D. None

23. Chelsea High What is cyber-bullying? A. Sending mean texts B. Spreading rumors online C. Threatening someone online D. All of the above

24. Chelsea High Is cyber-bullying a problem? A. Maybe B. Yes  C. No D. I don't know

25. Chelsea High Summer is coming, yay!!  However, too much sun exposure (without proper sunscreen usage or other protection), can lead to what? :( A. Skin Cancer B. Wrinkles C. More freckles D. All of the above

26. Chelsea High How can you protect yourself from too much heat and sun exposure this summer?  B. Wait until you feel your skin burning A. Do not use sunscreen C. Wear sunscreen and drink a lot of water! D. Go tanning

27. Chelsea High How can you prevent head injuries? wear a helmet B. wear a seatbelt C. do not drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol D. all of the above

28. Chelsea High Why are teens particularly at-risk for athletic or sport injuries? A. They're awesome, duh! B. They're still growing D. None of the above C. Both A & B

29. Thank You!!Have questions or want more information? Ask us or your teacher! 

30. References • Association of Schools of public health. What is public health? Accessed 1 April 2011.  Available from: http://www.whatispublichealth.org/what/index.html. • Association of Schools of public health. 2010. This is public health. Accessed 1 April 2011. Available from: http://www.thisispublichealth.org/FactSheet.html • American Public Health Association. 2011 partner toolkit: safety is no accident: live injury free. http://www.nphw.org/nphw11/pdf/2011NPHW_      toolkit.pdf. 4.Harlap S, Kost K and Forrest JD, Preventing Pregnancy,                 Protecting Health: A New Look at Birth Control Choices in the United States, New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1991. 5.Weinstock H et al., Sexually transmitted diseases among American youth: incidence and prevalence estimates, 2000, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2004, 36(1):6–10.

31. References 6.http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/teensmoking/a/teensmokefacts.html 7. http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-statistics-2009.html 8. http://www.webmd.com/skin-beauty/guide/sun-exposure-skin-cancer 9. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sunexposure.html 10. http://www.massgeneral.org/children/adolescenthealth/articles/aa_athletic_injuries.aspx

32. School Information (for us only) Tuesday, 4/5 - 9am-1:30pm Chelsea High School 299 Everett Avenue, Chelsea, Massachusetts 02150 Teacher: Leona Gibbs, lgibbs@chelseaschools.com

33. Contact Information (for us only) Catherine Taylor taylor.catherine.r@gmail.com 614-769-2770 taylor.catherine.r@gmail.com Rosalande Marcellon rmarcell@bu.edu 954-298-6670 Sonia Nixon soniagcn@bu.edu 240-535-2533 Daisy Marchena daisyjm@bu.edu 832-618-8598 Andrea Johnson acjohnso@bu.edu 707-287-6150 johnson.andrea4@gmail.com   Jesse McKenna jessekm@bu.edu 978-866-2760 jessekmckenna@gmail.com

34. Answers to Questions     Question 1: D, 90% Questions 2: B, 50% Question 3: C, 3000 Questions 4: D, Condoms and Abstinence Question 5: B, Car Accidents Question 6: A, smallpox Question 7: D, A & C  Question 8: A, 1 out of 3 teens  Question 9: D, all of the above Question 10: B, Yes, - approx 4% of teens report Question 11: D, all of the above Question 12: C, Wear sunscreen and drink a lot of water! Question 13: D, all of the above  Question 14: C, Both A & B