Clients in population focused nursing
A collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common
What is a Population
The health status of a given population or community
What is population health?
monitor and make available information about the community's health status and risk factors; diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards.
What is assessment?
Public health "players" and their roles
Public health "payers" the money trail
Public health in Spokane - a local-level exemplar
How is public health organized?
Those living in a specific geographic area or those in a particular group
What is a population
A type of health care practice; government and community efforts designed to prevent disease and promote health.
"What we, as a society do to assure the conditions in which people live can be healthy."(IOM, 1988).
What is Public Health?
inform, educate, and empower community members and mobilize community partnerships to develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
What is policy development?
These are examples of...
Public health agencies
hospitals
schools and institutions of higher learning
industry
Media
What are public health players and partners?
Subpopulations within a larger population
What is Aggregates
Epidemiology, advocacy, education, and social justice
What are the cornerstones included in public health?
Insure that essential community-oriented health services are available
What is Assurance?
Lead agency = Department of health and human services (DHHS).
What is a federal level agency?
Members that experience a disproportionate burden of health and poor health outcomes
What is a vulnerable population
prevent disease, and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population within it
What is the GOAL of public health?
Another way of looking at the core functions can be explained as
What is Protection, prevention, promotion, prognosis, and provision?
Provides overall policy direction and system coordination through legislation
Works with state agencies to develop administrative rules that are needed to implement laws
What is state legislature?
A smaller and more homogeneous group than a community. They are self-defined in terms of geographic boundaries and members identify and routinely interface with others living nearby
What is a neighborhood?
"The science and art of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention." (APHA website).
What is Public Health?
Protect the population against the exposure to illnesses that are contagious person-to-person or transmissible from environmental sources
What is Protection?
10 member appointed by governer
Recommends rules for most "traditional" public health activities
Provides a forum for public health policy development
Studies health problems
Recommends health policy to the Secretary of Health
What is the State Board of Health (WA)?