Health, Public Health & Primary Health Care

by

Kazi Md. Shefatullah

COMPONENTS OF

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2OUTLINE

Components of Health

Components of Public Health

Components of Primary Health Care

3COMPONENTS OF HEALTH

Physical Health – eating right, getting regular exercise and being at your recommended body weight.

Social Health – quality of relationship with friends, family and other people you are in contact with.

Environmental Health – keeping your air and water clean, your food safe and your surroundings enjoyable.

Emotional health – expressing your emotions in a positive way.

Spiritual Health – maintaining harmonious relationship with other living things and having spiritual direction and purpose. This includes living according to one’s ethics and morals.

4COMPONENTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Prevents epidemics and the spread of disease

Protects against environmental hazards

Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery

Prevents injuriesPromotes healthy behaviorsAssures the quality and accessibility of

health services

5COMPONENTS OF PHC

Monitor health status to identify community health problems Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in

community Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve problems Develop plans and policies that support health efforts Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety Link people to personnel health services and assure the provision of

health care Assure a competent public health and health care workforce Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility and quality of services Research for new insights innovative solutions to health problems

THE CONCEPT OF

HEALTH by

Kazi Md. Shefatullah

What is Health?

What is Public Health?

What is Primary Health Care?

Outline

What is Health?

According to WHO ?

“A complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely

the absence of illness.“

What is Public Health?

“The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation-of the environment, to control of communicable diseases, education of the individual in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease and the development of social machinery to ensure every individual a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his birth right of health and longevity.” – WHO.

What is Primary Health Care?

“A basic level of health care that includes programs directed at the promotion of health, early diagnosis of disease or disability, and prevention of disease”

So….. Stay Healthy & Happy

Thank You

Presentation By, Kazi Md. Shefatullah