Public Health- Public
health is the science of protecting and improving the health of families and
communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and
injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases.
Public Health Approach- The public health approach involves defining and measuring the problem, determining the cause or risk factors for the problem, determining how to prevent or ameliorate the problem, and implementing effective strategies on a larger scale and evaluating the impact.
- Defining the health problem.
- Identifying risk factors associated with the problem.
- Developing and testing community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause or the
problem.
- Implementing interventions to improve the health of the population.
- Monitoring those interventions to assess their effectiveness.