What is health promotion?
All efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well being or higher
levels of wellness
What is disease prevention?
Actions to reduce or eliminate exposure that might increase the chance for an
individual or group to contract a disease
What is primary prevention?
- Targets healthy individuals/ community
- Goal is to prevent illness
What are examples of health promotion?
1) Hand hygiene
2) Education
3) Immunizations
What is secondary prevention?
- Targets those "at risk"
- Goal is to have early detection and treatment
What are examples of secondary prevention?
1) BP testing
2) STD testing
3) Glucose reading
What is tertiary prevention?
- Targets individuals with health conditions
- Goal is to minimize complications and maximize health
What are examples tertiary prevention?
,1) Education on disease management
2) Long term social support
3) Home health services
4) Improving access to those with disabilities
5) Recalling contaminated foods/ products
What are the goals of Healthy People 2030?
- Attain healthy, thriving lives, free of preventable
disease/disability/injury/premature death
- Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups
- Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
- Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors
What are Social Determinants of Health?
Conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, etc. that
affect a wide range of health functioning and creates an environment that
promotes the full potential for health and well being for all
What are examples of social determinants of health?
1) Economic stability
2) Education access and quality
3) Health care access and quality
4) Social and community context
5) Neighborhood and built environments
What are leading health indicators?
1) Access to health services
2) Clinical preventative services
3) Environmental quality
4) Injury and violence
5) Maternal, infant and child health
6) Mental health
7) Nutrition, physical activity, obesity
8) Oral health
9) Reproductive/ sexual health
10) Substance abuse
, 11) Social determinants
What are sources of community data?
Primary- gathering info from people within the community
What are SMART goals?
- Specific
- Measurable
- Achievable
- Relevant
- Time bound
What is dissemination of implementation of public health program?
Refers to active efforts to spread knowledge and innovations based on
research findings
What are examples of dissemination of implementation of public health
program?
1) Publishing program or policy briefs
2) Publishing project findings in national journal and statewide publication
3) Presenting program results to local community and other local stakeholders
What are impact reports?
1) Communication of program evaluation
2) Dissemination of information to the community
3) Shared through variety of medium
What is epidemiology?
- The study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why
- Study of where the illness/ injury is occurring and the RF for contracting it
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to prevent/ lessen the effects
of illness