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The International Association of National Public Health Institutes ( IANPHI) is an international umbrella organization of national public health institutes (NPHIs), public health government agencies working to improve national disease prevention and response. IANPHI is made up of 100+ members, located in more than 90 countries. [1]
The Healthy People initiative was started in 1979 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a way to improve health and prevent disease throughout the United States.
A public health intervention is any effort or policy that attempts to improve mental and physical health on a population level. Public health interventions may be run by a variety of organizations, including governmental health departments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Common types of interventions include screening programs, [1 ...
Healthy People is a program of a nationwide health-promotion and disease -prevention goals set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The goals were first set in 1979 "in response to an emerging consensus among scientists and health authorities that national health priorities should emphasize disease prevention".
The Futures Initiative: the 10 Essential Public Health Services brought the national framework in line with current and future public health practice. This effort, led by a task force of public health experts, engaged the public health community in activities to collect information and build consensus for an updated 10 EPHS framework that ...
The public health initiatives that began to emerge initially focused on sanitation (for example, the Liverpool and London sewerage systems), control of infectious diseases (including vaccination and quarantine) and an evolving infrastructure of various sciences, e.g. statistics, microbiology, epidemiology, sciences of engineering.
Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 14–20) with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Brain Awareness Week (March 15–21) with the Dana Foundation. World Sleep Day (March 19) with the ...
The history of health care reform in the United States has spanned many decades with health care reform having been the subject of political debate since the early part of the 20th century. Recent reforms remain an active political issue. Alternative reform proposals were offered by both of the major candidates in the 2008, 2016, and 2020 ...