Question

Discuss how the ecological model for public health differs from acute care medicine. Provide at least 2 examples.

Answer 1

Ecological model focus on physical and sociocultural environment. It is a theory-based model interactive with behavior and organization level approach for health promotion and disease prevention.
   Acute illness mosetly caused by the harmful environment, due to the high risk of public health ecological models involve in public health to educate them to improve their knowledge and prevent acute disease. The goal of medicine to prevent illness and improve health by providing treatment and care.
An ecological model of public health completely focuses on prevention and health promotion, and acute care medicine focus on diagnosis, treatment, management to cure the illness.
Example:
An ecological model of public health and acute care medicine
-Due to environmental pollution, the public will suffer from asthma, bronchitis, the ecological model will prevent such diseases by avoiding pollution and educating the public to avoid this illness. Home visits, community education, public program, awareness programs can help avoid this pollution and find out the early illness. Acute care medicine can provide treatment when they acutely ill with acute exacerbation, asthma, bronchitis by ambulatory care providing medicine, diagnosis and followup.
- The relationship among different organizations, agencies to built healthy environment by avoiding fast-food restaurants, making public parking, transportation, carbage disposal to prevent the acute illness and improve public safety. Acute care medicine provides surgical service and emergency service incase when they acutely ill due to abdomen pain, injury, dehydration they prevent life-threatening conditions, by monitoring, management and rehabilitation.