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A breathless pensioner
Published in Tim French, Terry Wardle, The Problem-Based Learning Workbook, 2022
Regarding public health policy on smoking these are: health education: education, advertising dangers (TV/billboard advertising), warnings on packets etc. Additionally, brief advice (up to 5 minutes) from a GP given to all smokers to encourage them to make an attempt to stop is effective in promoting smoking cessationhealth protection: taxation, age restriction, advertising bans, a ban on smoking in public places is pendingdisease prevention: help with stopping as above.
What Physicians Need to Know, Do, and Say to Promote Physical Activity
Published in James M. Rippe, Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
The need to bring prevention back as a central focus in healthcare has been gaining momentum over the past several decades. One of the first to call attention to the need for this shift in focus was the landmark report Healthy People: The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention issued by U.S. Surgeon General Julius Richmond in 1979.14 This comprehensive assessment expressed a strong need to dramatically recast the nation’s public health policy to emphasize prevention, setting quantifiable objectives and goals for improvement. Physical activity was a major theme throughout the report, as well as the influential role the healthcare sector has in its successful promotion. The Healthy People report, along with its objectives and goal s, has been revised and updated every decade since the original was released. The importance of physical activity and the necessity to engage the healthcare sector in its promotion have remained central themes. Healthy People 2020, the most recent version of the report, includes two specific objectives suggesting a role for the healthcare sector in PA promotion.6 The first: “[I]ncrease the proportion of physician visits made by all child and adult patients that include counseling about exercise,” and the second: “[I]ncrease the proportion of office visits made by patients with a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or hyperlipidemia that include counseling or education related to exercise.”
Introduction: threads, challenges and the context of working collaboratively in public health
Published in Dawne Gurbutt, Jonny Currie, Liz Anderson, Russell Gurbutt, E. Riesen, M. Morley, D. Clendinneng, S. Ogilvie, M.A. Murray, P. Thompson, Lucy Kululanga, Patricia Donovan, Weir Hannele, Collaborative Practice for Public Health, 2018
Hence it is important to recognise that there are both micro and macro effects of policy implementation. This is accompanied by a need to influence policy making and evaluate the effects of existing policy in order to ensure that not only public health policy but also healthy public policy is instrumental in bringing about effective and equitable social change. This change should take into account the imbalances in socioeconomic circumstance which exert such a significant impact on health and wellbeing both within and between countries.
An assessment of the Swedish health system’s efficiency during the Covid-19 pandemic
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
Almas Heshmati, Mike Tsionas, Masoomeh Rashidghalam
The public health policy played a significant role in managing the pandemic. The liberal approach followed in public restrictions, high level of individual responsibility, the vaccination program, attaining herd immunity, and removing the restrictions helped the country return to normal. However, there was lack of satisfaction among the stakeholders about Sweden’s Covid-19 policy. The crisis management strategy involved the participation of political parties, national health agencies, and scientists with different weights and accounts for risk factors and errors in the causes and effects of selected policies. The approach from an economics perspective should follow a practiced political economy approach considering broader inclusive participation in decision making. As earlier studies have shown, the government’s active lockdown policies and lower population movements contributed to a decrease in new daily cases. Dynamic and adaptive government interventions and improved public awareness could have contributed to slowing the virus from spreading. Proactive learning by doing is needed to manage this unproductive crisis.
How China controls the Covid-19 epidemic through public health expenditure and policy?
Published in Journal of Medical Economics, 2022
Hui Jin, Baoyang Li, Mihajlo Jakovljevic
However, the government’s public health expenditure and policies are both important for epidemic governance. On the one hand, the efficient implementation of public health policy needs to be realized through the government’s public health expenditure11–13. If the governments have formulated a series of systematic and scientific policy implementation plans, but they couldn’t afford the corresponding public health expenditure due to insufficient fiscal funds, which may eventually lead to the poor effect of policy implementation in controlling the epidemic. On the other hand, when the fiscal funds are limited, the government’s public health expenditure should be used for scientific and effective policies1,14. If the government spends a lot of money on epidemic governance, but the policy implementation is chaotic, it will only waste money and fail to achieve the expected policy goals.
Patterns of Contraceptive Use and Associated Sociodemographic Factors in India: A Cross-Sectional Study of Young Married Women Ages 15–24 Years
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2022
Nanigopal Kapasia, Pintu Paul, Avijit Roy, Pradip Chouhan
The results of the present study make several contributions to the existing literature on public health policy. As the use of contraception, modern spacing methods in particular, is very low among young married women in India, the government should focus on designing effective policies and programs to improve girls’ and young women’s education, prevent child marriage, provide economic support to poor families, and create awareness through mass media. Moreover, improving the quality of care and infrastructure at public health facilities is recommended to raise the uptake of maternal health-care services, including the use of contraceptives. Given that we found that access to contraceptive methods is lowest among socioeconomically vulnerable groups of women, which can lead to devastating consequences for them, it is imperative to understand that access to contraceptives is a human right; all women, irrespective of their socioeconomic status, have the right to regulate their reproductive behavior. Improved targeting of socioeconomically and demographically vulnerable sections of the public by providing adequate reproductive health care, including contraception and proper family-planning information, is necessary to ensure their healthy lives and positive well-being.