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Health Status Assessment

WEBA health status assessment of a population establishes whether particular health problems exist in a given population, characterizes the problems and identifies the potential for avoidable mortality and morbidity. It can be used to support health needs assessment, for example, describe patterns of disease in a population and compare it other

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Medical Sociology

WEBMedical sociology (or sociology of health and illness) is the study of all those aspects of contemporary social life which impact upon health and well-being throughout the life course. If you work in public health, you should probably know a bit about the different social theories and the domains of medical sociology such as:

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Health Impact Assessment

WEBA health impact assessment (HIA) is the estimation of the overall effects of a specified action on the health of a defined population. It is an approach that ensures that decision making at all levels consider the potential impacts of policies, programmes or a project on health and health inequalities. HIA identifies actions that can enhance

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Health Protection

WEBHealth protection practitioners work to protect individuals, groups and populations from cases or outbreaks of infectious diseases and incidents of non-infectious environmental hazards (e.g. chemicals and radiation). This is largely a responsive service, managing outbreaks and situations (e.g. COVID-19, measles) but health protection services

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How to work in public health

WEBIn the UK, you can do this by contacting your local public health team in your local authority or council. You can do this by searching on the internet for your local authority and their director of public health, or looking for someone on LinkedIn. Teams in local authority do the upstream work (i.e. health improvement, reducing health

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Health Needs Assessment

WEBA health needs assessment (HNA) is a systematic method of identifying unmet health and health care needs of a population and making changes to meet those unmet needs. Health needs assessments are used to improve health, commissioning of healthcare and other service planning, policy making and priority setting - like in a Joint Strategic Needs

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What is Child Public Health

WEBChild public health is a sub-speciality of public health. Often, public health specialists and paediatricians work together on this area (sometimes called child health). The aim is to optimise health and well-being of all children and young people. Children and young people are most vulnerable to communicable diseases and to the wider

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Public Health Consultants

WEBConsultants in public health or public health medicine are essentially senior managers who provide strategic and systems leadership to improve health expectations and reduce health inequalities. They are skilled across the three 'domains' of public health (health protection, health improvement, healthcare) but in practice they may specialise in

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Public Health Registrars

WEBPublic health registrars are mentored by Directors of Public health and other consultants, who act as advocates on behalf of the general or local population. Registrars (both medic and non medic) are also expected to do on call, where they are on call one in nine days. This largely comprises of taking notifications of infectious or communicable

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Descriptive Studies

WEBDescriptive studies provide knowledge about which populations or subgroups are most or least affected by disease. This enables public health administrators to target particular segments of the population for education or prevention programmes and can help allocate resources more efficiently. 2. Hypothesis generation.

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Top tips for passing FPH Diplomate Exam

WEBHere are my top ten tips to passing with flying colours! 1. Think long distance not sprint! Many of us are used to the university way of life, cramming revision (and first time learning) into the month proceeding an exam. However, you may need to rewind this way of thinking. The Diplomate Exam is more like taking the A levels again.

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