Give an example about how interventions for promoting public health differs from individual medical care.
Give an example about how interventions for promoting public health differs from individual medical care.
Briefly describe the nature and focus of Public Health Interventions. Give one (1) example of a significant improvement in the health status of American society which resulted from 19th or 20th century Pubic Health Interventions.
Discuss how the ecological model for public health differs from acute care medicine. Provide at least 2 examples.
How is public health defined and who engages in this practice? How do we weigh individual rights against public health? Compare and contrast elements of health insurance, and give an example of containing health care costs and improving health care quality to development and help strengthen the character of our community. And how do you think the Affordable Care Act has improved public health?
Compare/contrast the use of healthcare informatics for individual patient care and for public/community health care. How are technology tools used in similar or different ways, based on the audience? Provide an example of how a specific technology tool can be used to educate an individual patient vs. how it would be used to educate the public.
Post, an explanation of how informed consent for medical research (clinical trials) differs from the patient's consent to treat used in health care practice (e.g., medical treatment or surgery). Explain why you think this difference exists? Provide at least one clear example of how informed consent could be used in medical research and one example of how it is used in health care practice. Then provide an example of each of the four ethical principals in action in research. Use...
What is the role of individual health care providers, health care organizations, and public health departments. Who else might play a role?
The population health approach emphasizes which of the following? Social interventions Multiple interventions Universal health care Traditional public health approaches All of these answers are correct
Public health interventions must balance the rights and concerns of individuals with the needs and safety of society. For example, should the government require vaccinations to prevent disease outbreaks? Does the government have the authority to enforce such health behaviors? Why or Why not? In other words, whose rights should prevail the rights of the individual to freedom or the rights of the public to stay safe and healthy? How would you balance the rights of individual and society? Show...
how is public health epidemiology different from medical epidemiology
Should individual health care be provided at public expense? Why or why not?