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Describe the role of who is in public health?

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - Working for Health around the world

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Question added by Dhanya Manhjeri , ER STAFF NURSE ( HAAD –RN) , LLH HOSPITAL , MUSSAFAH , ABU DHABI
Date Posted: 2013/07/18
Kayed Bani-Salameh
by Kayed Bani-Salameh , Infection control السيطرة على العدوى , Ministry of Health

The role of WHO in public health WHO fulfils its objectives through its core functions:1.
providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed;2.
shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;3.
setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation;4.
articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options;5.
providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and6.
monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
answered coped from : http://www.who.int/about/role/en/

Amol Harishchandra Mhaskar
by Amol Harishchandra Mhaskar , MRI Field Service Engineer , Time Medical Limited

They should start doing Public Awareness , collaboration with the healthcare organizations and keep themselves Up to date with the technologies offered in the healthcare .
They should raise the funds for research and development.

ahmed eyad salem alrawashdeh
by ahmed eyad salem alrawashdeh , ممرض قانوني , المدينه العربيه للرعايه الشامله

providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and6.
monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends .organizations and keep themselves Up to date with the technologies offered in the healthcare .
They should raise the funds for research and development.

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by Deleted user

Promoting development , Strengthening health systems

marwan abdalaziz
by marwan abdalaziz , Clinic Assistant Manager , International Medical Corps ( IMC )

The focus of a public health intervention is to prevent and manage diseases, injuries and other health conditions through surveillance of cases and the promotion of healthy behaviors, communities and environments.
Many diseases are preventable through simple, non-medical methods.
For example, research has shown that the simple act of hand washing with soap can prevent many contagious diseases.[4] In other cases, treating a disease or controlling a pathogen can be vital to preventing its spread to others, such as during an outbreak of infectious disease, or contamination of food or water supplies.
Public health communications programs, vaccination programs, and distribution of condoms are examples of common public health measures.
Measures such as these have contributed greatly to the health of populations and increases in life expectancy.
Public health plays an important role in disease prevention efforts in both the developing world and in developed countries, through local health systems and non-governmental organizations.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the international agency that coordinates and acts on global public health issues.
Most countries have their own government public health agencies, sometimes known as ministries of health, to respond to domestic health issues.
For example in the United States, the front line of public health initiatives are state and local health departments.
The United States Public Health Service (PHS), led by the Surgeon General of the United States, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered in Atlanta, are involved with several international health activities, in addition to their national duties.
In Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada is the national agency responsible for public health, emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
The Public health system in India is managed by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of the government of India with state owned health care facilities.
There is a vast discrepancy in access to health care and public health initiatives between developed nations and developing nations.
In the developing world, public health infrastructures are still forming.
There may not be enough trained health workers or monetary resources to provide even a basic level of medical care and disease prevention.[5] As a result, a large majority of disease and mortality in the developing world results from and contributes to extreme poverty.
For example, many African governments spend less than US$10 per person per year on health care, while, in the United States, the federal government spent approximately US$4,500 per capita in2000.
However, expenditures on health care should not be confused with spending on public health.
Public health measures may not generally be considered "health care" in the strictest sense.
For example, mandating the use of seat belts in cars can save countless lives and contribute to the health of a population, but typically money spent enforcing this rule would not count as money spent on health care.

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Yousef Ahmad
by Yousef Ahmad , مدير تمريض. محاضر جامعي تمريض. , كليات بريدة الاهلية

  •  As  Public Health Agency Role::  collecting and analyzing health status and utilization information; 
  • informing the public and policymakers of its analysis and recommendations; 
  • making sure that necessary public health and personal health services are provided to all.
  • PREVENT DISEASE. MAINTAIN HEALTH.  PROMOTE HEALTH
  • working to develop consensus on needed action; and 
  • making sure that necessary public health and personal health services are provided to all.

dennis mwamodenyi
by dennis mwamodenyi , Senior Public Health Officer , Taita-Taveta County

To carryout disease prevention activities such as; health education, sanitary inspections and corrections, vector control, school health programs, enforcement of sanitation and food health laws, disease surveillance, vaccinations

Kevin Michael Roque
by Kevin Michael Roque , Medical Reviewer (Quality Department) , Response Plus Medical (RPM)

As discussed in the core functions embodied in the Twelfth General Programme of Work, the World Health Organization's role in Public Health is not only limited to setting out standards and guidelines to be followed, but also in the following settings:

1. Leadership

2. Partnerships

3. Research

4. Evidence-based practice

5. Providing support

6. Enhancing capabilities

7. Monitoring and Assessing Health Trends

Fakhra Naheed
by Fakhra Naheed , Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist , currently work with "National Tuberculosis Progrom"

Thanks for your answer. Public health as mentioned is cover the preventive side while clinical side cover the management of admitted ill patients. Role of Public Health is very much important in a sense to control the disease through prevention.It also strengthen the health system by creating awareness through different communications,it help for the development of health policies. Further the load on the hospitals will be less. The most important is to save the life of people and provide the health services at the door step of the community.

 

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