AHU Resource Guides: Public Health: Overview

What is public health?

What is Public Health?

MedicineNet states the definition as: the approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole. Public health is community health. It has been said that: "Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time."

Emerging Issues

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Infectious Disease Outbreaks List
By CDC
Monkey pox resources for nurses
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources by AdventHealth
Coronavirus (COVID-19) information by World Health Organization
World Health Organization
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
From Dynamed
Florida COVID-19 Cases Dashboard (FL Dept of Health)

Coronavirus COVID-19 Symptoms, Causes, Prevention Nursing Review, by RegisteredNurseRN, March 2, 2020

Websites

Emergency Preparedness and Response
This site is intended to increase the nation's ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.(Center for Disease Control and Prevention).
Infectious Disease Outbreaks List
By CDC
National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health
The Center successfully brought together over 100 senior-level participants from across a variety of federal agencies to begin identifying disaster medicine and public health education and training needs. The site will be expanding in the coming months.
Pandemicflu
One-stop access to U.S. Government flu information
Wash Your Hands
CDC discusses the importance and proper way to wash your hands.

Definitions:

Pandemic: An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world. (www.medterms.com)