Health, Public Health & Primary Health Care

1. by
KaziMd. Shefatullah
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 Components of Health
 Components of Public Health
 Components of Primary Health Care

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Physical Health – eating right, getting regular exercise and being at
your recommended body weight.
Social Health – quality of relationship with friends, family and other
people you are in contact with.
Environmental Health – keeping your air and water clean, your food
safe and your surroundings enjoyable.
Emotional health – expressing your emotions in a positive way.
Spiritual Health – maintaining harmonious relationship with other living
things and having spiritual direction and purpose. This includes living
according to one’s ethics and morals.

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Prevents epidemics and the spread of
disease
Protects against environmental hazards
Responds to disasters and assists
communities in recovery
Prevents injuries
Promotes healthy behaviors
Assures the quality and accessibility of
health services

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 Monitor health status to identify community health problems
 Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in community
 Inform, educate, and
empower people about
health issues
 Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve problems
 Develop plans and policies that support health efforts
 Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
 Link people to personnel health services and assure the provision of health
care
 Assure a competent public health and health care workforce
 Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility and quality of services
 Research for new insights innovative solutions to health problems

6.  by
Kazi Md. Shefatullah

7. What is Health?
What is Public Health?
What is Primary Health Care?
Outline

8. What is Health?

9. “A complete state of physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely
the absence of illness.“

10. “The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life,
and promoting health and efficiency through organized
community efforts for the sanitation-of the environment, to
control of communicable diseases, education of the individual
in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing
services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease and the development of social machinery to ensure
every individual a standard of living adequate for the
maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to
enable every citizen to realize his birth right of health and
longevity.” – WHO.

11. “A basic level of health care that includes
programs directed at the promotion of
health, early diagnosis of disease or
disability, and prevention of disease”

12. Thank You
Presentation By, KaziMd. Shefatullah