Advocacy
Advocating to improve health outcomes for entire populations, not just individuals
What is public health advocacy?
What is an epidemiologist?
It's the study and practice of improving health and achieving health equity worldwide
What is global health?
According to NACCHO, this is defined as attempts to influence a legislative body through communication with legislators or certain government officials about specific legislation.
What is lobbying
APHA’s advocacy page lists protecting funding for core public health programs and ensuring access to this as a major ongoing concern.
What is access to health care
The social and economic conditions that influence conditions that influence health outcoimes, such as housing or income
What are social determinants of health?
These professionals design community ity health programs and teach how to prevent disease and live healthier
What are health educators?
The united nations agency responsible for international health guidance and outbreak response
What is the World Health Organization?
This type of lobbying occurs when you try to influence legislation by encouraging the public to contact their legislators about a bill, such as through a “call your representative now” email.
What is grassroots lobbying
PHA highlights these persistent differences in health outcomes that are closely linked to social, economic, and environmental disadvantages.
What are health disparities
He used mapping to stop the cholera outbreak in london
Who is john snow?
this is the top public health official oversees city or state health departments and sets priorities for community wellness.
Who is the health director?
inyternational cooperation, disase surveillance, vaccination campaigns, and rapid outbreaks response all serve this worldwide mission.
What is protecting global health?
When advocating for health funding or policy change, all lobbyists and public health organizations must report spending, limit gifts, and adhere to transparency laws.
What is "must follow strict guidelines"?
NACCHO cite these laws requiring people in cars to buckle up as one of the public health successes achieved through policy change.
What are seatbelts laws
Sharing lived expeerience to help lawmakers understand a health issue
What is storytelling for advocacy?
When foodbourne illness spreads, this professionals traces contamination sources and orders corrective action
Who is a sanitarian?
Diseases such as malaria, TB, and HIV that require worldwide funding and cooperation to control
What are global health diseases?
An example of this activity from the NACCHO document is: “We are asking you to vote in favor of the XX bill that increases funding for tobacco cessation programs in local health departments
What is direct lobbying
APHA identifies this environmental issue, driven largely by greenhouse gas emissions, as a critical public health challenge because it affects air quality, extreme weather, and vector-borne diseases.
what is climate change
Campaigns for clean water and sanitarian aim to prevent outbreaks of this type of disease.
What are communicable diseases?
They ensure marginalized voices are considered in health decsions and resource allocation
Who are health equity advocates?
COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, and influenza prove this principle: pathogens don’t recognize passports, politics, oceans, or national lines.
What is illness don't discriminate against borders?
NACCHO notes that local health departments must be careful with this kind of activity because these funds cannot be used to lobby the federal government, making it crucial to separate lobbying from other education efforts.
what are federal funds
A 2020 article in the American Journal of Public Health explains that this kind of large-scale event—like COVID-19—exposes weaknesses in public health systems and magnifies existing inequities.
what is public health emergency