health cases might be impaired.
Public health interventions having the potential to provide immense national benefits might end up harming, or only minimally benefiting, a majority of individual patients. This occurs for the reason that a population's statistical construct is essentially a biological entity independent from the people it comprises of (an ecological fallacy would result if one thinks otherwise) (The Society for Public Health, 1993).
Goals of Public Health
Promotion
Societal health promotion has remained public health workers' historical objective. This objective has long constituted the default notion underlying the purpose of the public… Continue Reading...
growing body of evidence on the importance of public health interventions and especially for preventative care.
Health literacy and other preventative methods can be applied in culturally appropriate ways to tackle the problem of obesity. To be culturally appropriate, public health interventions also need to take into account variables like gender, ethnicity, age, and socioeconomic class: all of which have an influence on how health information is communicated but also on diet and lifestyle norms.
An integrated model has been shown to be effective because it is comprehensive and multifaceted in its approach to obesity. Integrating health literacy, public… Continue Reading...
Practices
Standard practices involve preventative and ameliorative treatment interventions. Interventions may include individual interventions and also community or public health interventions including public policy and legislation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2017), for example, offers public health strategies like building communities conducive to physical activity and removing barriers to healthy eating. Community practices coincide with primary care interventions, which include regular and ongoing assessments of risk status, assessment of patient attitudes and lifestyle, dietary and lifestyle recommendations, and also pharmacological interventions.
Pharmacology
Especially at the preventative and early intervention stages, obesity can be managed through lifestyle changes alone. When the disease has progressed, however, and when… Continue Reading...
approaches have been fruitful when studying public health interventions for patients with HIV/AIDS. In one study, mixed-methods approaches illuminated what elements of an HIV care center were working, and which elements were not meeting the needs of patients (Chow, Quine, & Li, 2010). Chow, Quine & Li (2010) found that mixed-methods “increased the comprehensiveness of overall findings, by showing how qualitative data...provided explanations for statistical data,” (p. 491). Second, Chow, Quine, & Li (2010) point out how using mixed methods allowed the researchers to “expand the dimensions of the research topic,” prevented an overly and artificially narrow… Continue Reading...
