Describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning,
... [Show More] implementing, and evaluating public health interventions.
Is done at all 3 levels of practice.
Not doing any interventions just surveying what's going on
Surveillance
Systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to the health of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and others at risk, and determines control measures.
What is actually the concern here, what is causing the threat, and how are we going to control it
Disease and other health event investigation
Locates populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk and provides information about the nature of the concern, what can be done about it, and how services can be obtained. EX: setup a booth in break rooms on how to properly use ear protection, free water kits, health fairs
Outreach
Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations.
Screening
Locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them with resources.
Is its own intervention; can only do this at the individual level.
Ex: child/elder abuse found in ED referred to social services then to Public Health
Case-finding
Assists individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities to identify and access necessary resources in to prevent or resolve problems or concerns.
Outside of my scope of practice.
Referral and follow-up
OPTIMIZES SELF-CARE CAPABILITIES of individuals and families and the capacity of systems and communities to coordinate and provide services. EX: while patient is getting hearing checked, take their BP, it's high, get a DR for them because you know their insurance and what providers to direct them too
Case Management
Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated functions also include any direct care tasks a registered professional nurse entrusts to other appropriate personnel to perform.
Ex: Drive thru flu shots, administering immunizations
Delegated Functions
Communicates facts, ideas and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.
Health Teaching
Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system, family or individual intended to increase or enhance their capacity for self-care and coping. Counseling engages the community, a system, family or individual at an emotional level.
Counseling
Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems or issues through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family or individual. The community, system, family or individual selects and acts on the option best meeting the circumstances.
Consultation
Commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health.
Collaboration
Promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common purpose. It builds linkages, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership to address health concerns.
Coalition Building
Helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.
Community Organizing
Pleads someone's cause or act on someone's behalf, with a focus on developing the community, system, individual or family's capacity to plead their own cause or act on their own behalf.
Advocacy
Utilizes commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the population-of-interest.
Social Marketing
Places health issues on decision-makers' agendas, acquires a plan of resolution, and determines needed resources. Policy development results in laws, rules and regulation, ordinances, and policies.
Policy Development
Compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances and policies created in conjunction with policy development.
Policy Enforcement
Core Public Health Functions: determine community strengths and identify current and merging threats to the community's health through regular and systematic review of the community's health indicators wight he public health system partners.
Assessment
Core Public Health Functions: Establish a community health improvement plan and action steps with the public health system partners to promote and protect the health of the community through formal and informal policies, programs, guidelines, environmental changes, and programs and services.
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