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Which set correctly lists the three domains of public health?
- A Health promotion, disease surveillance, and clinical governance You picked ✕
- B Population science, public health, and social science You picked ✕
- C Epidemiology, biostatistics, and social science You picked ✕
- D Primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention You picked ✕
- E Health improvement, health protection, and healthcare public health You picked ✓
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The answer is E: Health improvement, health protection, and healthcare public health
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Why E is correct
See Domains of Public Health. Option E is correct. Public health is the organised effort of society to prevent disease, reduce health inequalities and improve the health of the population. Its work is divided into three domains. Health improvement is the effort to improve the health of the population and quality of life, for example weight loss programmes, smoking cessation services and treating existing disease. Health protection is the effort to prevent disease developing in a population, through vaccination, sanitation, protection against environmental hazards, epidemic control and screening programmes. Healthcare public health concerns the provision and prioritisation of services, funding decisions and research into improving healthcare. It is easy to mix these up with the three levels of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary), which are a separate classification. A memory aid: Improve, Protect, Plan the services.
- Three domains: health improvement, health protection and healthcare public health.
- Health improvement: improving population health and quality of life.
- Not the same as prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are a separate classification.
Why the other options are incorrect
- A. Health promotion, disease surveillance, and clinical governance: Health promotion, disease surveillance and clinical governance are real activities but are not the three recognised domains of public health. Your answer
- B. Population science, public health, and social science: Population science, public health and social science are the three strands of the unit that contains this teaching. They are fields of study, not domains of public health activity. Your answer
- C. Epidemiology, biostatistics, and social science: Epidemiology, biostatistics and social science are academic disciplines that inform public health. They are not the three domains of practice. Your answer
- D. Primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention: Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are the three levels of prevention, not the three domains of public health. Your answer
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Which activity best fits within the domain of health protection in public health?
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