Question

How does the field of Public Health impact an individual personally and professionally?

*Please answer in DETAIL*

Answer 1

Public health refers to prevention of diseases and improving the quality and quantity of life.The health issues can arise anywhere from a single person to pandemic.It concentrate on the community, public and private sector,state and national wide.It enables a person to be free of physical, social,psychological problems by finding the cause and treating it.

The main functions of it are

1. Assessment
2. Policy development
3. Assurance

Some of the public health concerns which can be addressed and found solution to be disease free are

• Pollution (air,water,land)
• Inculcating breastfeeding for the newborns by mother's,family planning and use of contraception
• bringing awareness and preventing the us of tobacco alcohol, drugs especially among teenagers and young adults
• The fluoride content in the water as to be measured and intervened to prevent major consequences
• Creating awareness on mental health
• Education and training

Some of the ways a public health can impact personally and professionally are

• Health illness like asthma of related respiratory diseases out of pollution
• Stress due to hectic lifestyle in the environment (e.g.,traffic during office hours)
• Putting at risk for getting communicable disease (swine flu,Ebola,bacterial infections,etc.,)
• If there exists a problem in getting water,grocery,natural disaster alert and vaccination against infections,in providing support to elderly population and children's it has a direct effect personally because these fields are generally taken care by the public Health departments
• When the norms and policy set by public health is not fpgoid it can impact the professional life
• Work pressures and depression in work place when the other daily things are not met by the public health