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What is public health?
the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the
organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private,
communities and individuals (CEA Winslow)
Assessment, planning, action evaluation (APAE cycle) 4 stages
1. monitoring and assessment
2. planning and solution development
3. implementation and management
4. evaluation
7 steps of apae cycle
1. ID knowledge gaps
2. Adapt to local context
3. assessing barrier to knowledge
4. implementing interventions
5. monitor knowledge use
6. evaluating outcomes
7. sustaining knowledge use
12 great PH achievements
, 1. Acting on social determinants of health
2. control of infectious diseases
3. less death from stroke and coronary heart disease
4. family planning
5. healthier environments
6. motor vehicle safety
7. safer workplaces
8. universal policies (applies to all members of a population)
9. vaccination (not just infectious diseases but things that cause chronic conditions)
10 healthy mothers and babies
11. ID hazard of tobacco
12. safer + healthier foods
100% Correct
What is public health?
the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the
organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private,
communities and individuals (CEA Winslow)
Assessment, planning, action evaluation (APAE cycle) 4 stages
1. monitoring and assessment
2. planning and solution development
3. implementation and management
4. evaluation
7 steps of apae cycle
1. ID knowledge gaps
2. Adapt to local context
3. assessing barrier to knowledge
4. implementing interventions
5. monitor knowledge use
6. evaluating outcomes
7. sustaining knowledge use
12 great PH achievements
, 1. Acting on social determinants of health
2. control of infectious diseases
3. less death from stroke and coronary heart disease
4. family planning
5. healthier environments
6. motor vehicle safety
7. safer workplaces
8. universal policies (applies to all members of a population)
9. vaccination (not just infectious diseases but things that cause chronic conditions)
10 healthy mothers and babies
11. ID hazard of tobacco
12. safer + healthier foods
