Public Health Assessments

The public health controls the outbreak infectious disease, and with their collective idea they are able stop the occurrence of these diseases, creating a safety conditions for people to stay healthy.

Public health is a practice that focuses on the promotion of physical, mental, and social health and well-being and on the prevention of disease and disability among groups of people. It differs from the practice of medicine because it focuses on prevention rather than cures and addresses the needs of people as a whole rather than as individual persons. (Thivierge, Bethany, (2016).)

The public health differs from private health in that the public health view health in a larger scope, such as identifying signs and symptoms of illness and informing the community, how to eliminate communicable disease, expanding the life span of the general population.

Personal health is

Whiles personal health deals Individual lifestyle choice such as smoking, drinking, vaccination, visiting doctor that individual makes that can have effect on our health.

2. What are the benefits of public health assessments? What are the disadvantages, if any? Give an example of a potential conflict within the community that could arise as a result of public health assessments. How can public health advocates and policy makers prevent and/or manage such a conflict?

The public health assessment gives a broad data about the wellness of each individual. Public health assessment is use in many organization as part of their wellness program because it provides them with information about their employees. The process involved collecting, analyzing and they information are used to educate the community. The assessment mostly includes data from environmental and health. These data provide recommendation, decision making to the local agencies, federal and state to help eliminate individual risks. This may lead to health education for the