Introduction to public health; the context and climate of practice (CP2025W1)

PPT slides - Introduction to PH

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• A brief history of public health and the main organisations in the UK
• The public health function: three domains of practice
• Individual vs population health
• How risks to health and wellbeing are identified, prevented or controlled
• The wider determinants of health and an introduction to health inequality
• The policy and strategy context

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Relevant UKPHR Standards (4 and 5)

4.1 Demonstrate how risks to health and wellbeing are identified, prevented or controlled.

4.2 Demonstrate how individual and population health differ and describe the possible

tensions which may arise when promoting health and wellbeing.

5.1 Support the implementation of policies or strategies to improve health and wellbeing

and reduce health inequalities.

5.2 Demonstrate how your work is influenced by an understanding of the impact of the

wider determinants of health.

5.3 Critically reflect on and make suggestions for how public health policies or strategies

could be improved.

• Understand the organisation of public health functions and the key organisations in the UK
• Understand the main policies and strategies relevant to public health
• Recognise the opportunities for influencing policy and strategy
• Recognise the main risks to health and know how these are identified, prevented and controlled
• Be able to confidently discuss inequalities in health and the wider determinants of health