Question

I have some ideal, but what can advocates, policymakers, and others do to promote habits that will improve community Health?

thank you

Answer 1

INTRODUCTION

Public health refers to all organized measures to prevent the diseases,promote health ane restoration of health among the population as a whole.Thr three elements of public health as follows;

-HEALTH PROTECTION

-HEALTH IMPROVEMENT

-HEALTH CARE SERVICES

PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH

-Management ,leadership and change

-Demography

-Epidemiology

   -The health status of person

-Health protection and communicable disease control

-Improving quality of care

  -Evidence based health care

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ADVOCACY

-Advocacy simply means openly supporting a certain viewpoint or gruop of peoples and advocacy is a process of supportind and enabling people to express;

-Express their vies and points

-Access information and services

-Defend and promotes the rights and responsibilities

-Explore choices and options

THE ELEMENTS OF ADVOCACY IN PUBLIC HEALTH;

-Research and apply data

-Policy goals

-Mobilize community

-Action plan and media strategies

-Cordinate with stakeholders and policy makers

ROLE OF ADVOCATES IN PUBLIC HEALTH AS FOLLOWS;

  -Provide creation of awarness

-Generating stakeholders support for policies and programmes

   -Behavioural changes on an individual level

  -Provide pressure to decision makers

-provide information to general and specific groups

-Create a sense of urgency

-Provides framework for promoting the public health

-Advocates is to promotes and reinforce a change in policy making ,health programmes and legislation

-Advocates identifies what really contributes to health problems ,community deterioration and the choices that individual make about the behaviour that affect their health and wellbeing

-Advocates to preserve policy changes to maintain public health

-To pressure poolicy makers to change or institutes policies that affect health and community development

-Advocates may also work in the areas of;

-LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

-NETWORKING

-PROMOTING LEGISLATIVES- CHANGES

-WORKING WITH MASS MEDIAS

-BUILDING PARTNERSHIP

-MOBILISING THE COMMUNITY GROUPS

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POICY MAKERS

Policy is defines as any guidlines ,principles or norms developed by the local or state governments to improve public health

ROLE OF POLICY MAKERS

-How to prioritise services and how to choose

-Applying principles to implement evidence based care

-Policy makers may responsible for numerous public health sevices and engaging with other stakeholders

-Make cordination with stakeholders in the field of education,health care services ,planning,transportations

- Maintanance and improvement of the health status of the populations

-The primary roles of policy makers as follows;

-HEALTH STATUS

-HEALTH SERVICES

-ORGANIZATION AND FINANCING

-HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

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-The surveillance of the health of the populations

-The identification of the health needs of the publicc and make policies

-Assessmentof cost-effectivness of interventions

-Analysing of national health accounts

-Policy makers also work in the field of;

-FINANCIAL RESOURCES

-HEALTH RELATED SECTORS

-INFORMATION SYSTEMS

-RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

-The major responsibilities of policy makers are;

-SETTINGS GOALS AND GUIDLINES

-ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS

-FUNDIND

-PROMOTES LEGISLATIONS AND REGULATIONS TO PROMOTE HEALTH POLOCIES

-UNDERSTAND THE COST EFFECTIVNESS OF AN INTERVENTIONS

-POPULATION HEALTH STRTEGIES

-PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TRAINING AND STAFFING

-STABILIZED MEDICATIONS

-INTEGRATED HEALTH BETWEEN THE HOSPITALS AND PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES

-Policy makers have to follow the steps of policy making like;

-Preserve for changes

-Review the changes

-Make policy options

-Health impact for each options

-Identify the barriers

-Stakeholders cordinations

-Revise policy

-Implement policy

-Evaluate policy

-A regulator of health care agencies

-A stimulator of research

-A financier of health and health care programmes

OTHERS HABITS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH;

-immunization

-proper sanitation

-nutritional programmes

   -supplementary diets

-care og high risk persons

-access health services