Question

• Define the terms public health and health promotion.
• What are the similarities and differences between the two?
• What specific health promotion activity was provided in your community during the past one year and what was the beneficial result?
• How did Healthy People 2020 develop and what is the purpose and goals of this program?
• What current legislation has had the maximum impact on the way health care is provided?
• What interest group(s) influenced the establishment of this legislation?

• Mention an interest associated with a health care promotion or wellness program that, according to you, had the greatest impact on the people of the U.S. in the last three years. Provide a description of this program.
  The description should include the following details:

• What were the activities actually associated with the program?
• How was it reported in the media?
• What was it about this program that had an impact on you?
• What population was involved? Why do you think the specified population was involved in the program?
• What do you think can be done by society to promote this program?

Answer 1

Ans)• Public health is defined as the science of protecting the safety and improving the health of communities through education, policy making and research for disease and injury prevention.

Health promotion is, as stated in the 1986 World Health Organization Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.

• Public Health and Health Promotion is about preventing ill health and promoting good health and wellbeing.

The first difference lies in the population and diseases perspectives that PHC and HP are literally defined as just "health care" and "promotion of health", respectively. The second difference, from a social and political point of view, is that PHC can be expressed as social and political efforts to make health knowledge, health care skills and the entire health service delivery system respond to the people's needs and situations, while HP is a process in which individuals and their environment are geared toward the pursuit of healthy lifestyles. These differences strengthen the unique values of each strategy. HP, which is a form of social mobilization for health, is about catering to the needs of developing countries. On the other hand, the principle of PHC, which is beneficiary-oriented, is universally applicable for both developed and developing countries.

• Examples of effective health promotion activities for child and family health
Promoting breastfeeding.
Promoting child and family nutrition.
SIDS prevention and education
Injury prevention
Promoting physical activity.
Smoking cessation programs such as 'quit' activities and 'brief interventions'

• Healthy People 2020:

It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. The vision of Healthy People 2020 is to have a society in which all people live long, healthy lives