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Public health broadly consists of three different strands the ‘3Ps’: health promotion, prevention of ill health and health protection. Speciality areas of public health have lots of overlap and cross over within these strands.
Public Health subject guide from the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum. Highlights key information resources.
Public health nurses are the crucial link between the health strategy for the nation, community and individuals at home. Historically, public health was primarily concerned with the management of sanitation and disease.
Definition of obesity. The World Health Organization's definition of obesity is a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30. The BMI is the most used measure for adults in the UK. It is the same for both sexes and across all ages and as such provides the most useful population-level indicator of overweight (BMI of 25 or above) and obesity.
Health protection is a term used to encompass a set of activities within public health. It is defined as protecting individual, groups and populations from single cases of infectious disease, incidents and outbreaks and non-infectious environmental hazards such as chemicals and radiation.
The role of nursing staff in public health. Find out more about how public health is a fundamental part of nursing and the different ways the nursing workforce is working to improve public health to prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing.
Improving public health is at the forefront of all of the UK governments’ policies for health and social care (NHS England 2014, NHS Scotland 2012, Scottish Government 2015, Public Health Agency, NI 2015 and Public Health Wales 2015).
Public health is everyone’s responsibility and should be a fundamental part of all nursing roles. Nursing skills are rightly valued as being able to provide meaningful public health interventions across all health and social care settings as part of holistic patient centred care.
The Principles describe what everyone, from nursing staff to people and populations, can expect from nursing to deliver safe and effective nursing care. They cover the aspects of behaviour, attitude and approach that underpin good care and they are mapped to and complement the NMC Code.
understanding the nursing public health role in all aspects of health care. ·overview of the definition of public health. information on the NMC standards for proficiency and against the public health skills with examples of possible learning outcomes.