What is Public Health?

Video Overview & Insights

In this video, we take a look at Public Health – the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts of society.

Public health focuses on improving the health of a population and preventing health problems before they happen. It is a broad field and covers a range of topics such as air pollution, epidemiology, communicable disease control, risk assessment and health promotion. We’ll take a look at what public health is, how it is different to clinical medicine, who is responsible for doing it and how it’s done!

For more information have a look at these websites:

1. CDC: Ten great public health achievements in the 20th century https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm

2. Constitution of WHO: https://www.who.int/about/governance/constitution

3. Global Charter for the Public’s Health: https://www.wfpha.org/the-global-charter-for-the-publics-health/

This video was created by Dr Ranil Appuhamy

Voiceover - James Clark

Creative Assistance - Neha

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