Question

Describe the role of public health professionals in advocating for policies and programs to improve community health.

Answer 1

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health status of the peoples in the community. This work is achieved by promoting research disease and injury prevention,healthy lifstyles,prevention of infections diseases.advocacy is a key health promotion activity for overcoming major barriers to public health and occupational helath, The health care workers should be advocate the public health care needs , by building and maintaining occupational helath programmes and is essential to shape the social and political climate.the advocacy seeks to ensuring that all people in community are able to have their voice heard on issues that are important to the people, protect and promote healt right, have their views and wishes genuinely considered when desions anre being made about their lives.the major advocacy are system advocacy,self advocacy, induvidual advocacy.