Public health and medicine

based scientific facts and research

• Medicine

• Evidence based

Prevention :

• stop something from happening

• the rate at which something occurs

What does public health aim at?

• It contributes to increasing the rate of patients

• prevent disease before it occurs

Does the public health organization reduce disease by vaccination for educating people about the dangers of a bad diet?

• True

• false

aiming to improve the health of a whole community or population group

• Target audience

• Overall health

• Evidence-based information

Medicine does not focus on treatment and care once disease occurs.

• true

• false

what is a benefit of patient education?

• higher chance of medication errors

• higher chance of patient needing to return to hospital

• higher chance of patient independence

• higher chance of preventable diseases

which one aims to prevent disease?

• public health

• medicine

It is not an important part of a health professional's job to be a health educator

• true

• false

which health professionals use health education for their patients?

• doctor and nurse

• pharmacist

• dietitian

• all of the above