public health

The aim of Public health is to :

• It promotes health at an individual level

• prevent disease before it happens.

• Public health professionals try to treat us from diseases

The relationship between public health and medicine is

• Public health addresses health issues at the individual level, Medicine addresses medical issues of the whole community.

• Public health addresses health issues at the population level, . Medicine addresses medical issues of an individual patient.

• They are the same no differences between them

public health and medicine have the same goal to improve the overall health of people through health promotion, health education, and medical treatment.

• True

• False

Public health focuses on disease treatments and improving health, medicine focuses on prevention .

• True

• False

Many groups and individuals are responsible for health promotion. These include( choose more than one )

• Healthcare professionals

• Schools

• police stations

• Healthcare providers/services and the Government

When a patient is involved in their care and understands what can make them better, they are less likely to have a better outcome.

• True

• False

Benefits of patient education include:

• higher chance of errors in medication

• Better management of conditions and faster recovery

• decreased chance of patient independence

• Lower chance of needing to return to hospital