Public Health Presentation: Issues, Screening, and Well-being

This presentation delves into the multifaceted aspects of public health, encompassing physical, mental, and social well-being. It explores the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and the significance of regular health check-ups. The presentation highlights the role of mental health, including stress management techniques, and the impact of social interactions on overall health. Furthermore, it discusses population health screening, its advantages, and disadvantages, as well as the social and ethical issues associated with it. References to relevant academic resources are included. This presentation offers valuable insights into the components of a healthy life and the importance of public health initiatives.

MEASURING HEALTH
PRESENTATION

Physical health
 Physical health is highly important for maintaining well-being of life and to
keep diseases away and leading healthy lifestyle. Staying active has various benefits in
life for an individual and all age group people as exercises, yoga keeps the body
structure fit and enable healthy disease free long life.
 Questions that can be asked normal public are as follows:
 1 How often you go to medical check ups and healthcare centres?
 2 What is your lifestyle routine to maintain proper physical health ?
 3 Do you practise yoga ?

Mental health
 Mental health includes emotional well-being and the factors by which you
handle your stress levels, the importance of strong mental health can be understood as
it keeps an individual motivated and energetic.
 Questions that can be asked normal public are as follows:
 1 Do you practise mediation to bring positivity in life?
 2 Do you listen music or read novels to maintain stress levels?
 3 What are your considerations to maintain strong mental health?

Social health
 Social health is vital for maintenance of an individual healthcare, by which
individuals can maintain healthy life standards.
 Questions that can be asked normal public are as follows:
 1 Are your social groups and friends positive enough to maintain your social health?
 2 Do you understand the vitality behind importance of social acre?
 3 Do you go for hangouts and meetings with friends?

Population health screening
 This refers to test that offers individuals in targeted group usually defined by
age, group and an organized programme. Significance of population health screening
are that it enables to analyse what are the scenario of population living healthy life
standards and how many percentages of people are facing problems in their health.

 Advantages- Less burden of diseases, strong healthy population
 Disadvantages- Elaborative procedure, costly metrics to analyse the population

Social and ethical issues
 Social and ethical issues in population screening are that some people are not
cooperative and sensitive enough to share their health issues, and have personal barriers
to open up in public

References
 Iyer, A., Stein, L. and Franklin, E. S., 2020. Bettering healthcare outcomes through
environmental design. In Clinical Engineering Handbook (pp. 852-857). Academic
Press.
 Jagannathan, J. and Udaykumar, U., 2020. Predictive Modeling for Improving
Healthcare Using IoT: Role of Predictive Models in Healthcare Using IoT.
In Incorporating the Internet of Things in Healthcare Applications and Wearable
Devices (pp. 243-254). IGI Global.
 Shirley, D., 2020. Project management for healthcare. CRC Press.