Analyze The Factors That Contribute To A Healthy Community Health Community

My interest in public health emerged when I recognized how much the health and well-being of an individual affects a community. From a young age, both my parents have struggled with their health; my mother having diabetes and my father having hypertension. I have seen how their health has affected them on the day to day basis and how it has affected those around them at a community level. As I continue to learn more about public health I am beginning to understand that many of the health problems, like the ones my parents face, can be prevented through lifestyle adjustments. Also, I have learned the most effective way to prevent diseases in a community is through advocating healthy habits to avoid health problems from emerging in the first place.

While both medical care and public health work to improve the lives of many people, there are several distinctions between the two fields. Healthcare providers such as nurses and doctors are responsible for diagnosing and treating illnesses for individual patients. The care ranges from minor injuries to severe and chronic diseases. Meanwhile, public health strives to improve the well-being of a population. Public health advocates for the overall “promotion and prevention” of diseases before it even becomes an issue for healthcare providers. Public health encourages people to adopt healthy lifestyle choices and strives to control the outbreak of diseases. Although public health is often overlooked in the grand scale of medical care, it is undoubtedly the main aspect in ensuring that the overall health of a community is prospering.

The pandemic struck the world and infected 1/3 of earth’s human population, killing over 50 million humans. The world’s top doctors have never witnessed anything of this killing magnitude besides the bubonic plague of 1348 but the transmissibility is of nothing they’ve ever seen in their lifetime or of recorded history. People abruptly became aware of the importance of health, and need of medicine and cleanliness.

1. It is important for health education professionals to understand the history of health promotion so history doesn’t repeat itself. We can learn from others past mistakes and triumphs. One important discovery was made by the Egyptians. They were known for their cleanliness at the time and the healthiest. They opened other people’s eyes to hygiene and in 1500 B.C. the Hebrews put together the world’s first written hygienic code. This explained the importance of keeping our bodies clean and how to protect it against contagious diseases. The Greeks continued with this and were one of the first people to put a strong emphasis on disease prevention as well as the treatment of diseases. They emphasized a balance between physical, mental and spiritual

In order to improve healthcare nationally and cut cost spending, preventative care and wellness should be at the fore front of every healthcare organization. Recommendations to emphasize preventative and wellness services include building a workplace that support healthy lifestyles, expand the roles of advanced providers, and expand preventative services at no cost.

The “Health for All by the Year 2000” movement was developed by The World Health Organisation with the aim to promote health and provide an improved quality of life worldwide (WHO 1986b). The World Health Organisation later developed a set of standards for delivering health promotion. These standards state that patient’s must be provided with information on important issues regarding their illness or condition and health promotion interventions should be recognised in all service users care pathways. The standards also necessitate that every hospital has a written procedure for health

Another thing that was happening in the 1830s was the religious and cultural practices and the forbidden conducts; during this period it was notable that people were quarantine for epidemics, sexual prohibitions to minimize illness spread and dietary restrictions to minimize nutrition illnesses. The hygiene movement (1840 – 1870) brought, the sanitary conditions as the foundation for improvement. The contagion control (1880 – 1940) in which immunology and outbreak investigations began. Between the 1950s and mid-1980s, the

Over the past 20 years, Agriculture, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Interior and Veterans Affairs departments as well as representatives of the health agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services together with such representatives, the Environmental Protection Agency is the federal to set goals for the health of the nation Buddha was configured between work groups. Healthy people effort is to re-create and re-visit goal every 10 years. Health care, cancer, AIDS, and access to smoking-current efforts, healthy people 2020, identified a few obvious, including those 42 subject areas, and may not come instantly to mind that some - food safety, health care-related infection , sleep health, social determinants of health. Federal interagency working group set up more than 600 goals in 42 subject areas, and encourages the community to use them in order to improve public health in the region. In order for the community to achieve this goal, healthy people 2020 MAP-IT will use the framework to improve the health of the community called. This section

There is no universal fix to the complexities of each country and what they face with regards to their health care needs. Health care is a fundamental need among all peoples. Each country will have to work on solving the disparities that exist in access of care, funding of care, and availability of care. Because we now find ourselves facing the dilemma of fighting many infectious diseases once thought to be under control, we must work with all countries around the world. Every country faces the potential of an outbreak of a disease like SARS or a terrorism strike involving biological or chemical agents. Global initiatives to improve the health of nations across the board regardless of resources in these nations will benefit all. We need to continue with consistent and comprehensive measures to ensure health equity to all (Williams & Torrens, 2010).

The two major public health achievements, over the past 200 years, surround the control of infectious diseases and advances in hygiene and sanitation. More specifically: immunizations through development of vaccines, safety in the areas of driving and in the workplace, ways to keep food safe by learning more about bacteria, better quality in drinking water including the addition of fluoride, healthcare for Moms, babies, children and families, the connections between tobacco and the hazardous results from its use, and drop in deaths from chronic illnesses such as heart disease and strokes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013).

Everyday, the United States faces new threats to public health and well being, and everyday, medicine advances. Updated medical procedures have created a safer, healthier nation than years past. Some of the most important advancements and ideas were created not that long ago. An era of extreme change of the medical world in the United States was the outbreak of poliomyelitis in the 1930s and 1940s. Three decades of research, treatment, and fighting an epidemic led doctors to take a different approach to medicine. This era produced new inventions, new sanitation concerns, and new vaccines. It also stressed the importance of maintaining personal health, and the importance of receiving all vaccines. These medical advancements include the invention

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The late 19th century saw an increase in the spread of infection and a radical change in the knowledge of disease causation. Some key contributions to public health are the Chadwick report in 1842 on “The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population” of Great Britian and soon after in 1848 Public Health Act was introduced (Fee & Brown, 2005). At this time, public health was organized efforts with the primary purpose of improving sanitary conditions of towns. In 1854, British physician John Snow’s “Cholera Map” as a result of his investigation of the distribution of waterborne cholera in London led to the removal of the Broad Street pump. This study showed the impact of socio-environmental factors on health (Morris, 2007) and marked the beginning of the modern epidemiology and a shift from reliance on quarantine which was prominent in that time to proactive action to protect health and prevent diseases. In Canada, provinces passed public health acts, which was modeled after the UK Public Health Act of 1875, that required municipalities to appoint a permanent local board of health, medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors to deal with communicable diseases,

Edwin Chadwick was a British official who significantly influenced the discussion about public health care in the 19th century. It was his personal believe that diseases were a direct result of the poor living conditions. In his Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain (1842) he revealed that the sewage and drainage systems in poverty areas were disorganized or not available. In many cases the water supply was provided by a shared pump at the end of the road which was unfiltered and therefore often polluted. In addition, the streets were rarely paved, which caused muddy streets and dirty water ponds. It was common that a group of households shared the same privy which was the ideal breeding ground for

Essex County is located in the North eastern part of new jersey. The history of Essex county dates back to 1666 when 30 families from Connecticut established settlement along the banks of Passaic river. Essex County was officially established in 1682 by east jersey legislature. Essex County is 129.631 square miles. The Geopolitical communities are designed by natural or human made boundaries (Maurer and Smith, 2009). It holds community safer for the residents and the governing body.