Achieving Public Health

Blow is a brief video to gain a more well-rounded understanding of public health! Public health is the concept of protecting and improving the health of people and communities. Public health can be achieved in many ways and can be seen with the promotion of healthy lifestyles, practicing disease prevention, and observing the importance of various groups of people who contribute to achieving public health. Children's health plays a huge role in achieving public health because practicing healthy habits young can encourage healthy habits as the children grow up. Children are the future of society, so their health is essential to public health. Homelessness is another huge population that can negatively impact public health. Without proper resources for homeless people, health can be difficult to achieve in communities. In addition, diseases have a large impact on public health. There are many different diseases with many different origins, therefore it is not attainable to cure all di...

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Homelessness in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Born and raised in Tennessee, Megan Pool completed her associates degree at Chattanooga State Community College and her BA degree at Tennessee Technological University. She received her associates degree in Respiratory Therapy (RRT) in 2021 and her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Health Management in 2022. Following a lifelong passion of helping children and the community achieve public health, Ms. Pool uses her RRT license to work at Erlanger’s Children’s Hospital and intends to use her BA in Health Management to advocate for children and community health as well. As a new writer, Ms. Pool has begun building her experience in sharing her passion for the well-being of society through online writing.

Disease prevention has a huge impact on public health; however, diseases are inevitable. Preventative measures are in place such as annual physicals, screenings, vaccines, educational programs, and training to ensure the right steps are being taken by the community to prevent diseases when applicable. Despite the preventative measures in place most individuals still suffer from some type of disease. Because diseases have such a vast variety it is unrealistic to expect diseases to be prevented completely. Rather than eliminating diseases, protocols from many different health organizations are in place to prevent diseases from spreading and escalating beyond control, and even still it cannot eliminate them completely. Primary prevention includes preventative measures before the disease occurs.  Primary prevention can also be thought of as interventions before health risks occur. As a first line of defense for health, primary prevention serves an important role to a person’s health. I...