Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Espen Gamlund ◽  
Carl Tollef Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Health Care Resources ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
The One

There have been debates in both philosophy and the field of population health on the issue of how mortality can and should be measured. In population health, the intention has been to produce measures of public health that can guide the formulation of policies governing the distribution of health care resources. However, there are many questions concerned with the evaluation of death that have not been carefully addressed in the literature on population health but that have been extensively discussed in the philosophical literature on death. Conversely, there are debates in population health about whether and how to summarize mortality and morbidity that have largely escaped the attention of philosophers. The purpose of this book is to bring these two general debates—the one in philosophy and the one in population health—into dialogue with one another, with the aim of evaluating deaths and examining the relevance of such evaluation to health policy.

Geographical Information Management Approaches

2013 ◽  
pp. 201-222
Author(s):  
Maria José Lucena e Vale ◽  
Filipa Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Prevalence Studies ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Management Approaches

The existence of adequate and reliable information to assess population health is essential to build solid strategies for public health promotion and social care, as to help demonstrate efficient investment in these areas. There are several health-related databases, covering different scales: World, Europe, or National, including several datasets with different details. These different datasets should be reviewed and selected on the basis of their ability to support efficient strategies associated with monitoring population health and their usefulness in the promotion of health care efficiency. To understand the relevance of these database infrastructures when integrated with Web-based, geographical information management tools, and use these to improve the knowledge of health issues, this chapter integrates examples related to enhancing the performance analysis of this collaborative spatial data infrastructure in three distinct areas: national health systems and health care; disease prevalence studies in different countries, and integrated analysis of environment quality and public health.

EU ‘Public Health’ and ‘Health-care’ Law and Policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anniek de Ruijter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Health Care Law

Taking into consideration the central health provision in the Treaty, which outlines that health is to be ‘mainstreamed’ in all other EU policies, it could be inferred that EU public health and health-care policy and law is either non-existent as an autonomous policy area, or that it is basically everything, in that all EU public policy is also health policy. This puzzle forms the starting point for this chapter, which describes the nature of EU power in the field of human health currently. The chapter first, as an initial exploration, questions the existence of a European authoritative concept of ‘health’. Second, the chapter takes into consideration the nature of EU policymaking in general and regarding health in particular and develops a concept of EU health law and policy, distinguishing between EU public health and EU health-care law and policy. Last, to draw out the scope of EU health policy more specifically, a historical overview is given of the involvement of the EU in health. The chapter conceptualizes EU power in the field of human health as authoritative allocations of value through the European Union political system with the object of protecting and promoting human health. This conceptualization draws out the scope of policy that will be the central focus for the following chapters.

The Right to Public Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
James Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

This chapter reframes the project of public health within a rights framework. It argues that there is a right to health, and this entails that individuals have a right to public health. Given that there is a right to public health, the state should undertake to reduce health risks. If a state does not take easy steps to reduce risks to health, and as a result allows significant numbers to come to harm or even death, then it violates individuals’ right to public health, and should be criticized as a Neglectful State. The ethical challenge of public health policy is therefore not the one-sided one of avoiding Nannying, but the more complex task of steering a course between Nannying and Neglect. Avoiding Neglect may involve restricting liberty in various ways.

scholarly journals Integrated Diabetic Clinic in a Rural Hospital of Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-78
Author(s):  
Niresh Thapa ◽  
Muna Maharjan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Important Public Health ◽  
Diabetic Clinic

Diabetes is an important public health concern which is increasing rapidly in developing countries. It is challenging to prevent and manage diabetes in a rural setting. The Integrated Diabetic Clinic is comprehensive diabetes care under one roof. Its aim is to provide efficient accessible and affordable comprehensive care. It will make a huge difference in the management of diabetes. This clinic will play a major role in unifying different aspects of health care under one roof and offer the most comprehensive and cost-effective accessible health care to minimize mortality and morbidity associated with diabetes.

scholarly journals Public acceptability of public health policy to improve population health: A population‐based survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 802-812
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Sharp ◽  
Mark A. Bellis ◽  
Karen Hughes ◽  
Kat Ford ◽  
Lisa C. G. Di Lemma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Improve Population Health ◽  
Public Acceptability ◽  
Population Based Survey

scholarly journals COVID-19 Capitalism: The Profit Motive versus Public Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Market Incentives ◽  
Motivated Behaviors

Abstract Market incentives in capitalist economies and public health requirements are contradictory. In the COVID-19 pandemic, market-rewarded self-interested behavior has been exposed as a source of mortality and morbidity. Profit-motivated behaviors can keep people from accessing necessities for health thereby harming individuals and possibly damaging population health. The profit motive can also undermine healthcare system capacity by maldistributing goods that are inputs to healthcare. Furthermore, because profit-seeking is economically rational in capitalism, capitalist imperatives may be incompatible with public health. The ways markets misallocate resources provide a rationale for state responsibility for health, which is a public good.

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