1. What do you mean by the term ' Public Health'?
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Public Health : 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: 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.
Examples of public health approaches: .Health promoting schools are one example of the public health approaches to health promotion because it seeks to change some of the social determinants of health in order to empower the individual to take control of their health.
1.Define the problem
2.Identify risk and protective factors
3. Develop and test prevention strategies
4.Assure widespread adoption of effective injury prevention principles and strategies.