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Public Health 101 Series

Introduction to public health.

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals." — CEA Winslow

This introductory public health course provides an overview of public health core functions and essential services.

Course Topics

• Key public health terms
• Historical developments from four public health perspectives
• Determinants of health and their effects on population health

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Introduction to Public Health. In: Public Health 101 Series. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2014. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/public-health.html .

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What is Public Health

Oct 26, 2014

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What is Public Health Aylin Drabousky, MA Administrative Director, CWRU MPH Program

Introducing the CWRU MPH Program

Curriculum • Core Curriculum • 6 core courses = 18 credits • Major Electives • 3 courses in major = 9 credits • Culminating Experience • Capstone Project = 6 credits • Practicum = 3 credits • Free Electives • 2 elective courses = 6 credits • Seminar (0 credits) Total MPH = 42 credit hours

Core Curriculum Statistical methods in Public Health History & Philosophy of Public Health Introduction to Health Behavior Environmental Health Health Management & Policy Introduction to Epidemiology for Public Health Practice

Majors • Population Health Research –16% • Global Health – 12% • Health Care Policy & Administration – 18% • Health Promotion/Disease Prevention – 25% • Undeclared – 29% (Expected to choose a major and advisor by the end of the first semester)

Dual Degrees • IGS (BA/MPH) • Anthropology (MA/MPH, PhD/MPH) • Medicine (MD/MPH) • Nursing (MSN/MPH) • Bioethics (MA/MPH) • Business (MBA/MPH) • Social Administration (MSSA/MPH) • Dentistry (DMD/MPH) • Law (JD/MPH)

MPH Student Body • MPH students – 122 • 35 new this fall (4 from spring 2012) • 53 in dual degree programs (43%) • 21 Medicine (40%) • 9 IGS (17%) • 8 Anthropology (15%) • 5 Dental Medicine (9%) • 4 Bioethics (8%) • 2 Management (4%) • 2 Social Work (MSSA) (4%) • 1 Law (2%) • About 25% have an advanced degree

MPH Student Body • Gender • Female –70% • Male –30% • Ethnicity • Not Indicated – 46% • Caucasian –30% • Asian –11% • Black or African American –7% • Hispanic or Latino –2% • Native American (Indian/Aleut) – 1% • Other – 3%

Experiences • Capstone • Community • Prevention • Intervention • Research • Public Health Improvement • Nationwide understanding • Statewide perspective

Contact Information • Scott Frank, MD, MS • [email protected] • Phone: 216-368-3725 • Aylin Drabousky, MA • [email protected] • Phone: 216-368-3128

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What Is Public Health? An Introduction.

The Institute of Medicine has a simple definition for public health: what society does collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy. Finding the evidence that helps create those conditions is a critical responsibility for a school of public health.  The impact is tremendous: more than 70 percent of health comes from prevention and factors outside of any individual’s control.

The Science of Prevention

Public health is responsible for everything from clean air and water to safe workplaces; from controlling the spread of infectious diseases and preventing chronic diseases to improving prenatal nutrition; from reducing automobile accidents to designing quality health systems. Partnering with national and local governments, public health scientists respond to natural disasters, pandemics, and any other threat to population health. And while medicine is vital for each of us when we get sick, public health benefits everyone, young and old, rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy, millions at a time, and in ways that ensure health beyond what any of us alone can accomplish.

The Role of Research and Discovery

Although the history of public health is filled with important discoveries, this is a science that thrives on continuous exploration. Public health scientists examine familiar areas of disease, disability, and safety, as well as conditions that alter the health landscape such as technological advancement, novel infections, and environmental shifts.

Understanding the links between tuberculosis and overcrowding in turn-of-the-century New York City brought about massive changes in housing, sanitation, and treatment—and a dramatically lower rate of TB infection.

The field is divided into several areas of specialty, each with its own approach to improving health. Epidemiology is the cornerstone science of public health defining the causes, distribution, and prevention of disease and disability. When populations experience the effects of ill health, epidemiologists find solutions. Biostatistics, with the capacity to measure, monitor, and analyze complex data, is a force in population sciences, from genetics to precision medicine, from brain science to clinical trials. Biostatisticians extract meaning from big data, leading us to quantifiable evidence used by all public health disciplines.

To expand access to antiretroviral HIV medication across sub-Saharan Africa, massive systems were designed to create access to medicine and care, and improve disease prevention in countries without any reliable healthcare infrastructure, saving millions of lives and changing the course of the AIDS pandemic.

Environmental Health Sciences examines our environment to explain how it contributes to health, whether measuring the effect of toxic substances on brain development, reducing levels of arsenic found in drinking water, or understanding how climate change and air pollution affect health. When health is impaired due to social forces such as racism, homelessness, or homophobia, Sociomedical Sciences is called upon to explain and alleviate the burdens of ill health.

Researching the effects of carbon emissions from New York City’s buses on health led to the widespread use of hybrid-electric or compressed natural gas vehicles, dramatically reducing both air pollution and asthma all over the city.

Considering topics like humanitarian assistance, migration, and reproductive health, Population and Family Health studies the unique issues that affect health for the most vulnerable, including children, refugees, and expectant mothers. Health Policy and Management evaluates health systems to build knowledge of how nations and local organizations can deliver more health at lower cost. Researchers train professionals to become leaders everywhere—from government to nonprofits, from hospitals to the insurance industry.