Integration of Primary Care and Public Health Assignment

Assignment Task

Primary care health systems are moving towards more of a focus on prevention rather than treatment of illness. This means supporting patients to adopt improved healthy lifestyle behaviors. This will help patients to live healthier and longer as well as reduce pressure on primary care.

Part

(a) You will carry out a review of public health, exploring the history, approaches, and theories that underpin the public health. You will also explore the tools and evidence that could be applied to make public health decisions and the ethical implications for those decisions on the people affected by the intervention.

1. Identify and describe any four (4) different public health interventions located in or working in partnership with primary care. Discuss the concepts and principles of public health that underpin each of these interventions

(b) Extend this review to an identified public health intervention, providing a clear description of the intervention its objectives and processes and determine if it has been effective or not using data and evidence and make recommendations for improvement.

2. Examine the evidence for one of the interventions chosen and discuss if the intervention would be beneficial in your local area.

3. Redesign any one of the interventions chosen and discuss what changes you would make to improve its quality and outcomes, with reasons.

4. Describe ways to evaluate any one of the public health interventions chosen. Which method would you use to evaluate this intervention and justify why it would be appropriate?

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