"Where college
boy?"
"At
the University of the bip .."
"What
major?"
"Public
Health bip .."
"Ooh ...
doctor"
"No, no
.."
"Nurse .. ??"
"No, no
.."
"So .. ??"
Well,
these questions have ever experienced several times when still a new student at
the same department at a state university. Even
samapai even now it's still the same question I've encountered from people -
people around. Then what
would I say? Of
course, as those who are steeped in Public Health Sciences, I will explain it
in accordance with the ability of the questioner. Well,
count - count rehearsal for later when dealing with the public in all its
uniqueness.
Make
friends - friends who are still curious about the "Public Health" is,
or create a sister - the sister who want melanjutukan education to PT and make
the "Public Health" as one of the considerations, here I will share
briefly about "What is Health community
"
The
science of public health (Public Health in English), is defined by Winslow
Professor of Yale University as a science and art: prevent disease, prolong
life, and improve health, through "community organizing efforts" to:
(Notoatmodjo, 2003 in wikipedia)
Improvement
of environmental sanitation
Eradication
of diseases - infectious diseases
Education
for personal hygiene
Organizing
services - medical services and care for the early diagnosis and treatment
Development
of social engineering that guarantees decent living needs are met in
maintaining health.
Health
science community is essentially a science which consists of various
disciplines such as biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, environment,
sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, administration, education and
others - others. However,
generally speaking, disciplines that underpin the establishment of public
health as a science, or better known as the 8 pillars of public health, among
others:
Public
Health Administration.
Health
Education and Behavioral Sciences.
Biostatistics
/ Health Statistics.
Environmental
Health.
Community
Nutrition.
Occupational
Health.
Epidemiology.
Reproduction
health.
Why
public health science is a multi-disciplinary science, because it is basically
a problem of public health is multicausal, then pemecahanya must be
multidisciplinary. Therefore,
public health as the art or practice has a vast expanse. All
activities either directly or indirectly to prevent disease (prevention),
improve health (promotion), therapy (physical therapy, mental, and social) or
curative, and recovery (rehabilitative) health (physical, mental, social) is a
public health efforts. (Notoatmodjo,
2003 in wikipedia)
As
for the efforts - efforts that included into the sphere filmed a public health
expert, among others:
Eradication
of infectious and noninfectious diseases.
Vector
eradication.
Improvement
of environmental sanitation
Community
nutrition improvement.
Public
health education.
Maternal
and child health services.
Public
sanitation supervision.
Managing
programs and health services.
Supervision
of food, beverages, and medications.
Fostering
the health of workers and the workplace.
Advocate
for health oriented policy.
Megelola
of data - health data.
Conduct
epidemiological surveillance.
Organizing
and empowering communities to be willing and able to live healthy.
and
many more activities - activities that beraa under the scope of public health.
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