Why is taking a public health approach important for research?

Running head : PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH ON RESEARCH

Why is taking a public health approach important for research

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Abstract

Public health approach is widely regarded as the approach that is most likely to produce significant and sustained results in research concerning major public health issues including drug addiction violence , suicide , and alcoholism . It consists of four major steps surveillance , risk factor identification , intervention evaluation , and implementation . After the implementation phase , the cycle is repeated in to

evaluate the program results to which the public action shall then be based

Why is taking a public health approach important for research

Public health is defined by CEA Winslow (1923 ) as the science and art of preventing disease , prolonging life , and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment , the control of community infection , the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene , the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease , and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health ' From this definition , we can say that public health has many functions that must be carried out to attain the task of preventing disease , prolonging life , and promoting physical health and efficiency ' Some of the essential functions of public health are (i ) monitor health status to identify community health problems (ii ) diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community (iii ) inform , educate , and empower people about health issues (iv ) mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems , and (v ) enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety . However , in to achieve these functions , there are several factors that have to be studied Research is a key towards successful policy-making and implementation of laws and regulations . Public health approach is widely regarded as the approach that is most likely to produce significant and sustained results in research concerning major public health issues including drug addiction , violence , suicide , and alcoholism . The public health approach was developed systematically to serve as a guideline in obtaining necessary information which will be useful in determining what actions the public shall take , that is , basing from the functions of the public health . The public health approach is used to define the health problem identify the different risk factors associated with the problem , develop and test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the problem , implement interventions to improve the health of the population , and monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness . As a guideline in conducting researches , it has four sets of steps which are tightly connected to each other . Each step is necessary in the research process . The first step is surveillance . This is basically answering the question that was given above : what is the problem . Here , the researcher needs to identify...