Thursday, June 25, 2015

What is the Public Health?

"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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