Public Health ICT Based Surveillance System

2012 ◽  
pp. 369-396
Author(s):  
Josipa Kern ◽  
Marijan Erceg ◽  
Tamara Poljicanin ◽  
Slavica Sovic ◽  
Kristina Fišter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Warning System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Public Health Surveillance System

The Public Health Surveillance System (PHSS) is defined as the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of health-related data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice. It serves as an early warning system, guides public health policy and strategies, documents the impact of an intervention or progress towards specified public health targets/goals, and understands and monitors the epidemiology of a condition to set priorities and guide public health policy and strategies. For this purpose, the PHSS should: be ICT-based and comprehensive with clearly defined sources, volumes, and standards of data; include all the stakeholders with information they produce, with enough flexibility in the dynamic of constructing indicators; be safe and able to produce information on demand and on time; and be able to act as a risk management system by providing warnings/reminders/alerts to prevent unwanted events.

scholarly journals The Public Health Responsibility Deal: how should such a complex public health policy be assessed?

The Lancet ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 380 ◽  
pp. S11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Petticrew ◽  
Elizabeth Eastmure ◽  
Nicholas Mays ◽  
Cecile Knai ◽  
Anna Bryden
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Responsibility

Demystifying Public Health Policy Through Service-Learning Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
Maxim Gakh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Public Health Programs ◽  
Training Stress ◽  
Pedagogy Literature ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Policy shapes the health of communities by enabling and limiting public health practice. Major organizations that focus on public health systems, education, and training stress the importance of policy to population health. They also recognize that practitioners should learn, practice, and be able to deploy policy skills. However, despite the recognized role of policy in public health, some public health practitioners remain uncomfortable with policy. And although teaching policy in public health programs appears on the rise, public health policy pedagogy literature is limited and tends to define policy narrowly. Service learning, which is used to teach other skills critical for public health, exhibits great promise as a tool to teach public health policy. This article describes an interdisciplinary, graduate-level public health policy course that relies on a service-learning approach. The course aims to teach public health policy principles, theories, and concepts and to make students more comfortable with public health policy through applied learning.

scholarly journals The Public Health Responsibility Deal: how should such a complex public health policy be evaluated?

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Petticrew ◽  
Elizabeth Eastmure ◽  
Nicholas Mays ◽  
Cecile Knai ◽  
Mary Alison Durand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Responsibility

An Overview of Ethics, Public Health Policy, and Politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 813-819
Author(s):  
Adnan A. Hyder ◽  
David M. Bishai
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Public Health Programs ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Implications

An understanding of what influences policy decisions, what determines investments for specific public health interventions, and how agreements are made regarding new programs in public health is crucial for helping navigate the ethical implications of public health programs and interventions. This chapter provides an overview of the Public Health Policy and Politics section of The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics. The section’s overall goal is to highlight ethical issues emerging from the work in, and study of, politics and policy development in public health, both within countries and globally. The chapters in this section analyze a set of ethical issues related to politics and public health policies, interventions, and programs, and emphasize the importance of communication among various disciplines, such as bioethics, political science, and development studies.

Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
James Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health System ◽  
System Design ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So ◽  
Ethical Requirement

Public health policy requires decisions about how to distribute the burdens and benefits of reducing health-related risks. This chapter argues that responsibility should be assigned on the basis of the values that the health system is aiming to promote or respect, rather than by treating personal responsibility as an extrinsic ethical requirement on health system design. A health system’s answer to the question of whom to hold accountable, and how to do so, should be framed within the context of the right to public health. Where claims of irresponsibility are levelled, these should in the first instance be directed towards those who violate the right to public health, either through government or corporate agency, rather than at isolated individuals.

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