Question

1. Please explain the three domains in public health policy that are rooted in confusion and therefor may results in public health failures to deliver appropriate action.

Answer 1

The three domain of public health policy are :

1. Health improvement
2. Health protection
3. Health service quality improvement

Health improvement

It includes socio-economic influences and health promotion, tackling the underlying determinants of health.

Health protection

It incorporates communicable disease control, environmental, chemical, radiation and nuclear threats; and occupational health.

Health service quality improvement

It includes healthcare systems, service quality, evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness and health economics.

This systemized approach to public health delivery can be used to draw out the different levels of competency that will be required by the workforce to carry out their respective roles, and as such has potential for adaptation to underpin educational provision.

The purpose of this study was to explore the interface between public health education and public health practice. This is particularly important because of the ill-defined nature of the public health workforce.