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• HUMAN HEALTH

  WHO 2021 – compete physical, mental, and social wellbeing state and not only absence of disease or ailment.
• Health and disease are determined by many factors (social, psychological, and biological form).
• Public health is defined as “the art and sciences of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting(physical) health (and efficiency) through the organized efforts of society (community efforts)”. –Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877- 1957)
• ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

  • Assurance
  • Assessment
  • Policy Development
• PREVENTION OF DISEASES

  PRIMARY

  • Oriented to prevent diseases appearance in susceptible populations.
  • It uses as much interventions of health and promotion like specific protection.

  SECONDARY

  • Its objective is to shorten the disease duration once it has appeared, to reduce the contagious probability, through early diagnosis and opportune treatment.

  TERTIARY

  • Directed to people with irreversible diseases to which it had no effective treatments.
  • It tries to preserve the functions, to diminish incapacity, to diminish underlying disease complications, and to harness rehabilitation.
• Preventive interventions must take into account the diverse diseases causal factors, considering its biological, physiological, and socio-cultural components.
• Health promotion

  • indirect form of, examining primarily the health idea, when the term itself
  • can talk about as much to present like disease states or incapacity absentees.
• DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH CONCEPTS

  Nonprofessional people

  • consider to be healthful when they do not have disease or they compare health with vitality and autonomy.

  Major adults

  • health as an inner force and the capacity to confront life’s challenges.

  Young people

  • think about health like good physical training conditions, energy, and strength.

  People who lives in prosperity

  health about the context to enjoy the life and those of less resources think it like having the basic needs to live
• Promotion of health

  action and law to approach, to modify the health determinants that are modifiable.
• PROMOTION AND HEALTH DETERMINANTS

  Determinants

  • are factors that improve or threaten the individual or community in health state.

  It can be:

  • Of individual option (style and habits)
  • Related to social, economic, or environmental characteristics outside the individual control (class, sort, education, and house)
  • At communication level (social participation, demand and/or labor availability, and quality of air and water)
• Interventions at any level (local/national) can improve health.

  Five strategies of action:

  • To conform healthful public policies
  • To fortify communitarian action
  • To develop personal abilities
  • Creation and protection of healthful atmosphere
  • To reorient health services
• In health promotion, two questions with respect to the evidence that exist:

  • The force and its implications for the investigation
  • The design of policies
• Five approaches to health promotion, each necessitating the use of different kinds of activities. These approaches are:

  • medical
  • behavioral change
  • educational
  • client- centered
  • societal change.
• Concept of “social capital” has been assumed to reconstruct individual action, it is more than qualification to improve the individual productivity (human capital) and then it projects itself to social organization (networks and norms) that facilitates coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.