Explain The Five Core Value Of Public Health

Public Health involves the improvement and advancement of health in populations and the prevention of infections and diseases. There are five core values that make up the Public Health Core Values. These functions cover every aspect of Public Health. The five core values are population-based, health promotion and disease prevention, evidence-based, the ecological perspective and health equity and social justice. First of all, population-based is focused on the big picture. It is oriented for group and teamwork and gears its concerns to society as a whole. There are many benefits that can come from population-based approach of public health. Some of these benefits are that small changes have bigger impacts, the changes are more sustainable and that changes are more equitably distributed. Essentially, the population-based approach is geared towards the big

The three P’s correlated with this category are Promotion, Protection and Prevention. Addressing the needs of the population as a whole is what is typically done promotional wise. Protection wise, there is an emphasis on actions taken to eliminate risk of health consequences. And finally prevention which is geared towards primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, (before, during and after the health issue respectively). The third approach is evidence-based which works from proven strategies to combat prevalent diseases and health outcomes. Some benefits of evidence-based practice is that it is systematic, uses funding correctly and avoids reinventing the wheel. There is a four step process within the evidence-based approach that goes like this: 1) identify the problem, 2) identify risk factors, 3) compare and contrast, and 4) develop a strategy. Steps three and four of the four step process always seem to be the biggest