Public Health

Public Health

Core Functions
1. Assesment - Collecting analyzing and dissemenating community health information
2. Policy Development - Promoting health using scientific knowledge base in descion making, invloves collaboration of many stake holders
3. Assurance - links people to services. Reviews drugs, food, and medical functions, epidiemieology programs
Analytical Studies (compare risk factors)
1. Prospective Cohert Studies
  1. Doll & Hill Study smokers found to have more cancer (lip)
  2. Framingham Studies investigate heart disease factors, first epidemiology study of chronic disease
  3. Hammond Horn Study looked for cause of death, found smoking causes cancer
  4. Nurses Health Study use of alcohal and oral contraceptive may be cancer factor
2. Double Blind Studies
  1. Kingston-Newburgh Study Intervention & Community Trial Found flouride effective agianst tooth decay
3. Case Control Study
  1. Reyes Syndrome - deadly disease that occurs after children take asprin during a viral infection
Public Health Metrics
1. Crude Mortality Rate - total deaths within population annually
2. Frequency = amount infected / per population
  1. Morbidity - is frequency within a given time
3. Incidence Rate - number of new cases

Resource summary

	Created by maxblade over 9 years ago