MEDICAL

Public Health and Health Policy

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Public Health and Health Policy

Definition of public health

The science and the art of making sure that diseases are not occurring, increasing the life span of people and as well as promoting health, specially the physical health and well being of public is called public health. The control of the infections that are being confronted by overall community, the better education system of individual as far as personal hygiene is concerned. Another thing that is accounted in public health is to make sure that medicinal and overall nursing services for the as soon as possible diagnosis are also public health (Franche & Krause, 2002, p.233).

New Public Health

New public health is the modern application of some of the evidence based, technological, and some of the other management systems that are placed to make sure that the overall health of the population is improved. The main approach is applying some of the past political and practical applications of some of the failures and successes of the past. This approach helps to combat some of the re-curing health problems.

Lalonde report

The lalonde report is produced in Canada that was formally entitled as A New Perspective on the Health of the Canadians. There were two main health related objectives that were overall augmentation of the healthcare system and also discussed some of the health as well as taking measures that help in the promotion of good health. It was one of the more formal methods that were formulated at the government to make sure there was some emphasize given to the unconventional healthcare methods and do away from some of the more traditional healthcare methods.

Ottawa Health Charter

Ottawa health charter promoted some of the key area's as far as healthcare is concerned, emphasize was on one building health policy that is sustainable. It was also made sure that enough support system to create better supportive environments. Strengthening the overall community action as and developing the personal skills of healthcare professionals.

There are many dimensions when we talk about the way healthcare policy should be formulated and what should be the basic constituents of it. The workplace seems to be one of the places where healthcare policy makers need to work on. One has to see how health care policies may have an impact and what the workplace health issues are discussed below.

Impact of work on health

Positive effect of work

Before thinking about the negative impact of work in our lives, one can see that there are many positives benefits of work as well. Even though this depends a lot on the type of workplace, but it has been seen that healthy and positive workplace often provide environment that is good and conductive for healthy lifestyle (Naidoo, 2008, p.125). When there is such workplace, the people are motivated, they want to keep moving forward, keep learning new things and this can have a positive effect on a life of an individual. While even if someone looks at the business perspective of the things, ...