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Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". [ 1 ][ 2 ] Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. [2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [3] and 150 field offices worldwide. [4] The WHO was established on April 7, 1948, and formally began its work on September 1, 1948. [5]
The United States Public Health Service (USPHS or PHS) is a collection of agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health, containing nine out of the department's twelve operating divisions. The Assistant Secretary for Health oversees the PHS. The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) is the ...
The American Public Health Association estimates that more than 30% of the medical costs for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are related to health inequities, ...
Phase 1: A virus in animals has caused no known infections in humans. Phase 2: An animal virus has caused infection in humans. Phase 3: There are scattered cases or small clusters of disease in ...
The takeaway. The difference between an epidemic and a pandemic isn’t the severity of the disease, but the degree to which the disease has spread. When a disease exists all the time in a ...
Community health worker duties include: Home visits. Sanitation of the environment. Provision of water and nutrition. First aid. Treatment of simple or common illnesses. Health education. Maternal ...
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC / f eɪ k / FAYK) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is ...