DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Infant Mortality, Environmental Health
10 Sep 2020
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The science and art of promoting and protecting health and well-being, preventing ill-health and prolonging life through the organised efforts of society . Emphasises collective responsibility of health, its protection and disease prevention. Recognises the key role of the state, linked to a concern for the underlying socio-economic and wider determinants of health as well as disease. Emphasises partnerships with all those who contribute to the health of the population. Three key domains: health improvement, inequalities, education, housing, employment, family/community. Scientific evidence supports a socio-economic explanation of health inequalities. This traces the roots of ill health to such determinants as income, education and employment as well as to the material environment and recommendations have implications across a broad front and We have identified a range of areas for future policy development, judged on the scale of their potential impact on health inequalities .
