Public Health : 100 Global Health issues

Today, I would like to list out 100 important global health issues that are covered under Public health.

I have come across many students making fun of Public health, when asked what is public health they say.. "it is health of public and why you are asking it when it is so simple". Let me add few points for their innocence.

What is Public health?

Public health refers to all organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases. Thus, public health is concerned with the total system and not only the eradication of a particular disease. 

The three main public health functions are:

• The assessment and monitoring of the health of communities and populations at risk to identify health problems and priorities.
• The formulation of public policies designed to solve identified local and national health problems and priorities.
• To assure that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care, including health promotion and disease prevention services.

Public health is all around us: the water we drink, the immunizations we receive and the environment in which we live in..  

List of various Global health issues covered under Public Health:

1. Adolescent health
2. Ageing
3. Bacterial diseases
4. Biological issues
5. Biosafety
6. Blood transfusion safety and blood products
7. Cancer
8. Cardiovascular diseases
9. Chemical Safety
10. Child and Maternal health
11. Communicable diseases
12. Diabetes
13. Diarrhoeal diseases and Cholera
14. Disabilities and Rehabilitation
15. eHealth
16. Emergency and Humanitarian action
17. ePortuguese programme 
18. Environmental and Humanitarian action / hazards
19. Ethics
20. Event based surveillance 
21. Evidence informed policy making
22. Filarial infections
23. Finance
24. Food safety
25. Gender, Women and Health
26. General management
27. Genetics and hereditary diseases
28. Global health observatory
29. Global Learning and performance management
30. Global mass gathering
31. Health economics and financing
32. Health information, statistics, measurement and trend assessment 
33. Health legislation and human rights
34. Health promotion and education
35. Health security
36. Health systems research and development
37. Health technology (laboratory services)
38. Healthy cities
39. Hepatitis
40. HIV/AIDS
41. Human Resources management
42. Human resources for health (excluding Nursing)
43. Immunology
44. Influenza
45. Informatics and telemedicine
46. Information technology and telecommunications
47. Injuries, violence and accident prevention
48. International health regulations
49. Laboratory biorisk management
50. Laboratory biosecurity
51. Legal
52. Leishmaniasis
53. Leprosy
54. Library services and publishing
55. Malaria
56. Mental health and Neurosciences
57. Monitoring and Evaluation
58. Non-communicable diseases
59. Nursing
60. Nutrition
61. Occupational health
62. Oral health
63. Organ transplantation
64. Outbreak alert and response
65. Parasitic diseases
66. Patient safety
67. Pharmaceuticals (Essential drugs and Medicines)
68. Planning, Resource coordination and Performance monitoring 
69. Poliomyelitis
70. Prevention of Blindness
71. Prevention of Deafness
72. Public Health Emergency
73. Rabies
74. Radiation
75. Reproductive health
76. Research policy and development
77. Respiratory infections
78. Rheumatic diseases
79. Risk assessment
80. Risk communication
81. Safety measures in Microbiology
82. Schistosomiasis
83. Security management
84. Sexual Transmitted Diseases
85. Small pox
86. Social determinants of health
87. Suicide prevention
88. Substance abuse (alcohol and drugs)
89. Surgical care
90. Tobacco
91. Tourist health and travel medicine
92. Traditional medicine
93. Trypanosomiasis
94. Tuberculosis
95. Vaccines
96. Vector biology and control
97. Viral diseases
98. Viral hemorrhagic fevers
99. Water and sanitation
100. Zoonoses.

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