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Introduction to Public Health Nutrition
January 2012Nutrition 531
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What is Health?
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Health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.
WHO
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What is Public Health?
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Mission of Public Health
“…to fulfill society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.”
IOM. Future of Public Health.
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Population Health
Improving Everyone’s Quality of Life: Group Health Foundation, 2001
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Population Health
• Considers a broad set of options for improving and sustaining health
• Highlights role of social and economic forces in combination with biological and environmental factors
• Results in benefits to all
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Public Health Practice Compared to Clinical Nutrition Practice
Public Health Practice
Clinical Nutrition Practice
Focus Prevention Disease treatment
Target Populations Individuals
Setting States & Communities
Clinics & Hospitals
Strategies Multiple, Reinforcing
Counseling and education
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Core Functions of Public Health
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Assessment
• Assess the problems and needs of the population
• Monitor the health of populations • Assess and monitor the determinants of
population health
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Policy Development
• Develop policies, programs and activities that address health outcomes and the determinants of those outcomes
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Assurance
• Assure the implementation of effective strategies by providing or monitoring policies, activities, and services.
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What About Nutrition?
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Mission of Public Health Nutrition
• To assure conditions in which people have access to adequate and appropriate food.
• To assure conditions in which people can achieve optimal nutritional health.
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10 Essential Public Health Services: Public Health Functions Steering Committee - State and Local • Monitor Health Status to identify community health
problems• Diagnose and investigate health problems• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues• Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve
health problems• Develop policies and plans that support individual and
community health efforts• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and
ensure safety
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• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
• Assure a competent public health and personal heath care workforce
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based public health services
• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
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Healthy People 2020• Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year
national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
• Overarching Goals1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death. 2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
improve the health of all groups. 3. Create social and physical environments that promote
good health for all. 4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and
healthy behaviors across all life stages.
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Last Decade: Strong Emphasis on Policy & Environmental Change
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Ecological Framework for Influences on What People Eat