What is Public Health? Briefly discuss its importance in the management of COVID 19

 Public Health:

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.

This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases.

Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world.

Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or recurring through implementing educational programs, recommending policies, administering services and conducting research-in contrast to clinical professionals like doctors and nurses, who focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured.

Public health also works to limit health disparities. A large part of public health is promoting health care equity, quality and accessibility.

Public health works to track disease outbreaks, prevent injuries and shed light on why some of us are more likely to suffer from poor health than others.

The many facets of public health include speaking out for laws that promote smoke-free indoor air and seatbelts, spreading the word about ways to stay healthy and giving science-based solutions to problems. 

Public health importance in the management of COVID 19:

Community health centers play an important role in rural and remote areas and form one of the largest systems of care available to rural populations.

Today, community health centers serve 1 in 6 rural residents, so they have a critical role in the response strategy to COVID-19 in rural communities.

Because health centers are in virtually every community in our country, they are in a unique position to respond to COVID-19. They can help increase access and availability of COVID-19 testing for the community.

However, despite ramping up testing and virtual visits, health centers are reporting steep declines inpatient visits, and many staff members are unable to work because of COVID-19 related issues.

These issues include having to juggle work obligations and parenting obligations as a result of school closings and not being able to find appropriate child care as a result of day care closings.

Another challenge is the temporary closure of health centers as a result of the pandemic. Although health care centers received $1.98 billion in rapid response grants from the federal government, more financial support may be needed to sustain services.

Health centers also have issues related to the availability of personal protective equipment and testing supplies. Staffing to assist with contact tracing for COVID-19-positive people is also necessary. 

Public Health studies play a major role in fighting off the biggest killers of humans. Public Health professionals, who have either studied a Public Health degree or Health Studies related course, are constantly battling against diabetes, cancer, heart disease and dementia to maintain the health and wellbeing of the population.

A fundamental quality of Public Health is its preventative nature. Prevention is far more effective and far less expensive than cure.

It is important because you are constantly building new skills and expanding as a person. This is due to the nature of the work promoting growth through day-to-day activities and taking part in major projects and campaigns.

Public Health is important because you become the voice for individuals who have no voice and simply put,your influence on the improvement of someone’s health can be a great satisfaction.

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