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Public Health Lecture 1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Number of hospitals, health centers distribution
      - Number of beds/1000 population
      - Admissions: number, diagnosis, age groups
      - Staff: Availability of doctors, nurses, technicians with ref. to population
      - Equipment: Transport, drugs, food supplied.
- - - - Topmost level of health objectives which fulfills requirements of physical, mental & social health.
    - - A. Primary prevention: prevent the occurrence of health hazards
        B. Secondary prevention: prevent recurrence of disease (diarrhea diseases)
        C. Tertiary prevention: rehabilitation of handicapped individuals to minimize disability.
    - - Evaluation & check up
        
        Screening tests
        
        comprehensive medical examination
        
        Survey studies
- - - - Must known people’s health problems
        nature size, distribution among population
        how these problems vary from place to place and in time
        external factors: socioeconomic factors
    - - Morbidity or disease statistics
        
        Mortality or death statistics
        
        Fertility & birth statistics
        
        Population statistics
    - - The census
        
        Process of collecting & publishing demographic, economic & social data at specified time or times to all persons in a country or limited territory
      - Registration of vital events (births, deaths & marriages)
        
        If complete & accurate, can be reliable source of info. On changes in population
      - Notification of diseases; communicable & non communicable
        
        Incidence of specific diseases in community
      - Records of hospital & health centers
        
        Prevalent disease in community
        hopsitals (in patient/ out patients)
        Health centers ( mother child health, family planning, env. Health, school health, communicable disease control)
      - Health & morbidity surveys
        
        Data about health & morbidity status of population
      - Surveys of particular endemic diseases
      - Records of sickness- absentees
        
        Proportion of persons absent is an indication of prevelace of disease or morbidity in population
      - National sample survey
        
        Collect data about health related factors to know about determinants of a disease (man host, agent infectious agent, environment)