Identify a population-based problem of interest in any community and identify relevant outcomes you would like to see from mitigating the scope and effects of this problem.
- I believe that Chronic alcoholism is a population based problem that has significant effects on the overall health and wellbeing of the people in my community. There have been alarming levels of alcohol health issues, and alcohol use leads to a wide variety of illnesses, health complications and harmful activities, from mental disorders and road traffic injuries, to liver diseases and unsafe sexual behavior. Excessive intakes of alcohol were also related to multiple cardiovascular problems such as angina, high blood pressure and risk of heart failure over several years. Current estimates of alcohol-related diseases only partly reveal the impact of harmful alcohol use. Accumulating data shows that harmful use of alcohol is interconnected with infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and TB. Such relationships have to be proven or confirm and quantified prior to the adaptation of global estimates of diseases due to alcohol.
What role would public health play in addressing this social issue?
- I can say that addressing excessive alcohol consumption using individual, community and population-level strategies simultaneously can create a comprehensive response at all levels. Population-level interventions should complement, improve and jointly educate approaches at individual-levels approaches in responding to socioeconomic stress, trauma and access to care including care for substance use disorders and in exploring potential genetic predispositions. Evidence-based, individual-level strategies such as brief intervention, referral to treatment, screening, are an essential and very important component of a comprehensive effort together with population-level interventions that offer greater protection for more people at less cost.
How is public health essential to the health and well-being of your community, and how does public health relate to population-based nursing?
- The public health is essential or important in providing effective strategies, whether implemented through the legislation, mass media, community-wide interventions, or other types of efforts, which can reach wide segments of the population. Public health may also play a significant role by providing selective procedures that target groups of individuals who have a high probability of developing a problem outcome with interventions of greater scope and intensity than would be practical, affordable in a universal approach or necessary.
- Also, Public health is the science of protecting and enhancing or improving the health of people and their communities. This is accomplished by the promotion of healthy lifestyles, disease research and injury prevention, the identification, prevention and response to infectious diseases. Public health is indeed everyone's responsibility and is a fundamental part of all nursing roles. As being able to provide meaningful public health interventions across all health and social care settings as part of holistic patient centered care, nursing skills are rightly valued. Public health issues community-based nursing, as the partnership helps one to determine the health status and health needs of the target population, to incorporate and evaluate measures intended to improve the health of that population and to provide care to members of that population efficiently and effectively.