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Learning Module #4: Understanding Public Health

Learning Module #4: Understanding Public Health. Objective s . Define Public Health and identify key activities of Public Health Professionals

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Learning Module #4: Understanding Public Health

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  1. Learning Module #4: Understanding PublicHealth

  2. Objectives • Define Public Health and identify key activities of Public Health Professionals • Understand the differences between how public health professionals and other healthcare professionals solve problems and the reasons for the two different approaches • Apply public health problem solving approaches to various public health related scenarios • Design a public health awareness campaign for a public health problem in your community

  3. What is Public Health? Two popular definitions of public health: • “Public health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play.”(APHA, 2017) • “The activities that ensure conditions in which people can be healthy. These activities include community wide efforts to identify, prevent, and combat threats to the health of the public.”(Institute of Medicine Definition of Public Health)

  4. What does a public health professional do? • Education and public awareness campaigns • Monitoring Community Health • Promote Preventative measures • Develop laws/policies • Make recommendations to government • Investigate diseases • Evaluate programs and ensure compliance

  5. How is public health different from medicine or other healthcare fields? Public health looks at populations while medicine treats individual conditions Public health designs solutions and prevention for communities and organizations. Public health rarely treats acute medical conditions.

  6. Why do we need both public health and medicine?

  7. Healthcare workers can work with public health to increase Health Equity Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Flint Doctor Who Helped Expose Lead Water Crisis Is Fighting for the Most Vulnerable: 'We’re Not Giving Up on These Kids' Video Link: https://people.com/human-interest/flint-doctor-expose-lead-water-crisis/

  8. Public Health Awareness Campaigns • One of the most important jobs of public health professionals is to educate communities about public health threats. • This is often done as awareness or advertising campaigns. • Can you think of any public health campaigns that you have seen recently?

  9. Recent Public Health Ads image credit: collegian.com image credit: cochildfatalityprevention.com image credit: denvergov.org image credit: co4kids.org

  10. Anti-Smoking Ads

  11. Vintage Public Health Ads

  12. Design Your Own: Public Health Awareness Campaign What to include in your poster: • An image • Your message (should be clear, concise and catchy) Refer back from the previous slides: Choose a topic and design a simple public health awareness poster to help educate the public. When done, please email your work to: mitch@centralcoahec.org and lynn@centralcoahec.org

  13. What types of problems do public health professionals help solve? Public Health-Claims to Fame • Safer and Healthier foods • Healthier Mothers and Babies • Family Planning • Fluoridation of Drinking Water • Tobacco as a health hazard • Immunization • Motor- Vehicle Safety • Workplace Safety • Control of Infectious Disease • Decrease in Heart disease and Strokes

  14. Current Health Concerns in the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention • Prescription drug and opioid overdose • Global health security • Tobacco use • Rapid response to outbreaks • Zika and pregnancy • Antibiotic resistance • Cancer • Obesity • Health Risks of Climate Change

  15. Degrees and Programs for Public Health • Colorado School of Public Health • the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado • Locations in Aurora, Fort Collins, and Greeley • 170 course, 42 concentrations • 10 research centers • http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/Pages/default.aspx • Bachelor’s degree in Public Health • Master’s in Public Health • Doctorate in Public Health Other possible degrees – • Nursing • Healthcare Administration • Environmental science • Epidemiology • Social work • Health education

  16. Careers in Public Health • Epidemiologists- $74,120 • Community Health Workers- $38,180 • Environmental Scientists and Specialists- $72,050 • Health Educators - $55,260 • Medical and Health Services Managers- $103,680 • Health Specialty Teachers- $112,950 • Healthcare Social Workers- $53,590 • Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers-$45,820 • Mental Health Counselors- $43,990 • Natural Sciences Managers -$136,450

  17. Future Roles for Public Health • Economic Stability • Education • Social and Community Context • Health and Health Care • Neighborhood and Built Environment • Health Equity

  18. Future Role of Public Health: Local and Global Health Equity Listen to Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners-in-Health, a public health organization that seeks to end healthcare disparities in developing nations, talk about healthcare as a human right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpZnUjtorI

  19. Sources • Cdc.gov. (2017). Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the 20th Century| About | CDC. [online] Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/about/history/tengpha.htm [Accessed 1 Aug. 2017]. • Hari Prasad Kafle, MPH Pokhara University • The 6 Highest Paid Public Health Jobs. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.publichealthdegrees.org/highest-paid-public-health-jobs • Public Health Functions Steering Committee, Members (July 1995) • Punke, H. (n.d.). CDC's 7 public health threats in focus for 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017, from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/cdc-s-7-public-health-threats-in-focus-for-2017.html • Social Determinants of Health. (n.d.). Retrieved July 31, 2017, from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health

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