1. What do you mean by the term ' Public Health'?
Ans: Public health is" the science and art of preventing disease ,prolonging healthy life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society. organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.
2. What do you understand by the Public Health Approach?
Ans: Public Health Approach :
- Define the health problem .
-Identify risks factors associated with the problem.
-Develop test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause or the problem.
-Implement interventions to improve the health of the population.
-Monitor those interventions to asses their effectiveness.
The steps of the public health approach:
1.Surveillance: What is the problem?
2.Risk factors identification: What is the causes?
3.Intervention evaluation: What works?
4.Implementation: How do you do it?