### luck | wellbeing | health:

Public health
* addresses the needs of the population as a whole.
* aims to maintain and improve the health of entire populations or population subgroups.
* approaches to the management of obesity.
* broad discipline with many overlapping interests.
* can do much to supplement primary care
  - mean making sure that sewer and water systems reach everyone and function safely
* concerns itself with violence in society too.
* contributes significantly to longer, healthier lives.
* differs from health care in two major ways.
* encompasses a wide range of strategies affecting the health outcomes of a population.
* has roots in antiquity.
* helps to prevent outbreaks of epidemics and the spread of disease.
* includes more than just the absence of illness.
* involves the prevention aspect of health.
* is about ensuring healthy living and working environments
  - all about prevention, and almost every act of violence is preventable
  - also a concern surrounding raves
* is an applied field concerned with the health-related needs of groups of people
  - important aspect of the lives of people everywhere
  - broader and more inclusive than epidemiology
* is concerned with disease and early death as they occur in populations
  - improving the health of populations
  - enhanced by improved light and air
* is everyone's business
  - responsibility
  - in jeopardy in areas where arsenic poisoning is extensive
  - involved in health protection and promotion from a population-based perspective
  - most often about preventing or reducing the seriousness of illness and injury
  - multidisciplinary
  - one of the most rapidly expanding fields in the country today
  - protected by allowing shellfish to be harvested only from waters of high quality
* is the application of health science in a community context
  - first-line defense in maintaining and improving the public's health status
  - focus when mosquitoes are vectors , or transmitters, of infectious disease
  - hottest field in healthcare
  - system that works to protect and promote the health of citizens
* makes it possible for the public to be healthy.
* means different things to different people
  - many things to many people
* promotes early prenatal care for all pregnant women.
* serves as the connection between scientific research and delivery of health care.
* takes a population-based approach to addressing the root causes of health issues.
* way for everyone in a community to work together.
* works behind the scenes by preventing disease and optimizing health.
* works, through dozens of programs, to keep a community safe and healthy.
+ Health, Aspects of health, Public health:
  * It is about the health of many people, or everybody, rather than one person. Public health stops instead of encouraging a disease through surveillance of cases. To prevent being sick, it is good to do healthy behaviors such as hand washing, vaccination programs and using condoms. When infectious diseases break out, washing hands may be especially important.
+ Public health, History of public health: Medicine
  * Public health has roots in antiquity. From the beginning, human civilization recognized that polluted water and lack of proper waste disposal spread communicable diseases. Early religions attempted to regulate behavior related to health, from types of food eaten, to behaviors, such as drinking alcohol or sexual relations. Governments placed responsibility on leaders to develop public health policies and programs in order to gain some understanding of the causes of disease, ensure social stability prosperity, and maintain order.