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What is public health, public health connects us all.

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world.

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Why is public health important?

Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or recurring through implementing educational programs, recommending policies, administering services and conducting research—in contrast to clinical professionals like doctors and nurses, who focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured. Public health also works to limit health disparities. A large part of public health is promoting health care equity, quality and accessibility.  

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What is clinical care.

The prevention, treatment and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by medical and allied health professions; also known as health care.

What is epidemiology?

Epidemiology is the method used to find the causes of health outcomes and diseases in populations. In epidemiology, the patient is the community and individuals are viewed collectively. By definition, epidemiology is the study (scientific, systematic, and data-driven) of the distribution (frequency, pattern) and determinants (causes, risk factors) of health-related states and events (not just diseases) in specified populations (neighborhood, school, city, state, country, global). It is also the application of this study to the control of health problems.

What is an outbreak?

Occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event clearly in excess of normal expectancy. Both terms are used interchangeably; however, epidemic usually refers to a larger geographic distribution of illness or health-related events.

What is a health outcome?

The result of a medical condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person’s life.

What is public health surveillance?

Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice.

What are health disparities?

Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic and other population groups and communities. Achieving health equity, eliminating disparities and improving the health of all U.S. population groups are all goals of public health.

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Public health made global headlines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But how exactly do we define it?

Here's a good way to describe the essence of public health.

In the medical field, clinicians treat diseases and injuries one patient at a time. In public health, researchers, practitioners, and educators  prevent disease and injury at the community and population level. We identify the causes of disease and disability, and we implement large-scale solutions.

For example:

• Instead of treating a gunshot wound, we work to identify the causes of gun violence and develop interventions to prevent it.
• Instead of treating premature or low birth-weight babies, we investigate the factors at work and we develop programs to keep babies healthy.
• Instead of prescribing medication for high blood pressure, we examine the links among obesity, diabetes, and heart disease—and we use data to influence policy aimed at reducing all three conditions.

Today, public health encompasses areas as wide-ranging as epigenetics, chronic disease, the science of aging, mental health, disaster response, refugee health, injury prevention, and tobacco control. Microbiologists work to find vaccines while behavioral scientists research ways to change behaviors. Epidemiologists identify trends in health and illness, looking for links, causes, and interventions in areas such as infant mortality and infectious diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis. Environmental health scientists work to discover which foods prevent cancer, while health policy analysts evaluate health insurance programs and make recommendations. 

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• Understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and working to control its spread
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• Investigating the consequences of antibiotic use in industrial agriculture
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• Promoting policies and sustainable practices that protect the global environment
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• Quantifying the links between human rights abrogation and poor health

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Introduction to public health.

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals." — CEA Winslow

This introductory public health course provides an overview of public health core functions and essential services.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Introduction to Public Health. In: Public Health 101 Series. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2014. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/public-health.html .

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What Is Public Health? An Introduction.

The Institute of Medicine has a simple definition for public health: what society does collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy. Finding the evidence that helps create those conditions is a critical responsibility for a school of public health.  The impact is tremendous: more than 70 percent of health comes from prevention and factors outside of any individual’s control.

The Science of Prevention

Public health is responsible for everything from clean air and water to safe workplaces; from controlling the spread of infectious diseases and preventing chronic diseases to improving prenatal nutrition; from reducing automobile accidents to designing quality health systems. Partnering with national and local governments, public health scientists respond to natural disasters, pandemics, and any other threat to population health. And while medicine is vital for each of us when we get sick, public health benefits everyone, young and old, rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy, millions at a time, and in ways that ensure health beyond what any of us alone can accomplish.

The Role of Research and Discovery

Although the history of public health is filled with important discoveries, this is a science that thrives on continuous exploration. Public health scientists examine familiar areas of disease, disability, and safety, as well as conditions that alter the health landscape such as technological advancement, novel infections, and environmental shifts.

Understanding the links between tuberculosis and overcrowding in turn-of-the-century New York City brought about massive changes in housing, sanitation, and treatment—and a dramatically lower rate of TB infection.

The field is divided into several areas of specialty, each with its own approach to improving health. Epidemiology is the cornerstone science of public health defining the causes, distribution, and prevention of disease and disability. When populations experience the effects of ill health, epidemiologists find solutions. Biostatistics, with the capacity to measure, monitor, and analyze complex data, is a force in population sciences, from genetics to precision medicine, from brain science to clinical trials. Biostatisticians extract meaning from big data, leading us to quantifiable evidence used by all public health disciplines.

To expand access to antiretroviral HIV medication across sub-Saharan Africa, massive systems were designed to create access to medicine and care, and improve disease prevention in countries without any reliable healthcare infrastructure, saving millions of lives and changing the course of the AIDS pandemic.

Environmental Health Sciences examines our environment to explain how it contributes to health, whether measuring the effect of toxic substances on brain development, reducing levels of arsenic found in drinking water, or understanding how climate change and air pollution affect health. When health is impaired due to social forces such as racism, homelessness, or homophobia, Sociomedical Sciences is called upon to explain and alleviate the burdens of ill health.

Researching the effects of carbon emissions from New York City’s buses on health led to the widespread use of hybrid-electric or compressed natural gas vehicles, dramatically reducing both air pollution and asthma all over the city.

Considering topics like humanitarian assistance, migration, and reproductive health, Population and Family Health studies the unique issues that affect health for the most vulnerable, including children, refugees, and expectant mothers. Health Policy and Management evaluates health systems to build knowledge of how nations and local organizations can deliver more health at lower cost. Researchers train professionals to become leaders everywhere—from government to nonprofits, from hospitals to the insurance industry.

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What is public health? This video series gives the answer

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So what is public health, anyway? As the American Public Health Association celebrates its sesquicentennial in 2022, the organization decided to produce a series of 20 short videos titled “ That’s Public Health .” Working with YouTube and Complexly, an online production company, the APHA set out to show why issues from climate change to gun violence to racism affect public health and how addressing them can improve our well-being.

The videos started posting in January, with the first 10 hosted by Mighty Fine, director of the APHA’s Center for Public Health Practice and Professional Development . ( Deboki Chakravarti , a science educator and blogger with a PhD in biomedical engineering, is hosting the rest.) Fine spoke with editor-in-chief Michael Fitzgerald about the effort. This interview was edited and condensed.

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Q. What is the purpose of the video campaign?

A. It showcases the possibilities of public health. It’s a way to hit those high-level issues within public health in a bite-sized manner, to talk about what we do and what more we need to be doing to create the healthiest nation we can. People want to understand the world they’re living in better and feel empowered to make shifts happen. These videos help folks to realize how attainable these shifts can be and how, even if you’re not a public health professional, there’s still work that you can do to be a part of the solution. That’s what I’m really hoping these videos can do.

Q. Have you had any reactions that stood out for you?

A. I’ve had people email me or DM me on social media and let me know they forwarded videos. Some people are really excited that it’s a person of color doing this. I was on the Metro here in D.C., and a woman kept looking at me—I had my mask on—and she said, “I don’t mean to be rude, but do you work for the American Public Health Association and have you done some videos?” That was kind of cool because it was super random. I mean, you want people to view the videos, but I didn’t think I would actually cross paths with someone who didn’t already know me and watched them.

Q. In your day job you present all the time. Was this different?

A. They had to reel me in a little bit, because when I do presentations I am all over the place, like, in the audience. I like to have conversations with the folks I’m speaking to and have a dialogue. You know, your pie chart, your confidence intervals and all that is critically important to the work that we do. But my grandmother doesn’t care about a confidence interval, right? She wants to know, what can I do to stay healthy? What can I do to stay safe? You know, what’s my part in this?

Q. You’re the voice and face of public health, for the moment. How does that feel?

A. I’m extremely passionate about public health, both personally and professionally. Having a larger stage than I’ve ever had before to communicate that to the masses, it’s rewarding.

Top image: Mighty Fine in a scene from the APHA’s “ That’s Public Health ” video series.

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“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” Health Promotion Glossary, 1998

 A brief history of Health Promotion

The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986, and was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world. It launched a series of actions among international organizations, national governments and local communities to achieve the goal of "Health For All" by the year 2000 and beyond. The basic strategies for health promotion identified in the Ottawa Charter were: advocate (to boost the factors which encourage health), enable (allowing all people to achieve health equity) and mediate (through collaboration across all sectors).

Since then, the WHO Global Health Promotion Conferences have established and developed the global principles and action areas for health promotion. Most recently, the 9th global conference (Shanghai 2016), titled ‘Promoting health in the Sustainable Development Goals: Health for all and all for health’, highlighted the critical links between promoting health and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Whilst calling for bold political interventions to accelerate country action on the SDGs, the Shanghai Declaration provides a framework through which governments can utilize the transformational potential of health promotion.

Promoting Healthier Populations 

 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides a bold and ambitious agenda for the future. WHO is committed to helping the world meet the SDGs by championing health across all the goals. WHO’s core mission is to promote health, alongside keeping the world safe and serving the vulnerable. Beyond fighting disease, we will work to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, leaving no-one behind.

Our target is 1 billion more people enjoying better health and well-being by 2023. 

• Good Governance

Strengthen governance and policies to make healthy choices accessible and affordable to all, and create sustainable systems that make whole-of-society collaboration real. This approach is based on the rationale that health is determined by multiple factors outside the direct control of the health sector (e.g. education, income, and individual living conditions) and that decisions made in other sectors can affect the health of individuals and shape patterns of disease distribution and mortality.

• Health Literacy

Improving health literacy in populations provides the foundation on which citizens are enabled to play an active role in improving their own health, engage successfully with community action for health, and push governments to meet their responsibilities in addressing health and health equity.

• Healthy Settings

The settings approach has roots in the WHO Health for All strategy and, more specifically, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Healthy Settings key principles include community participation, partnership, empowerment and equity. The Healthy Cities programme is the best-known example of a successful Healthy Settings programme.

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Bringing together all societal and personal influences to raise awareness of and demand for health care, assist in the delivery of resources and services, and cultivate sustainable individual and community involvement.

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New compound could supercharge naloxone in fight against opioid overdoses

In a Stanford Medicine-led study, researchers combed through billions of compounds to find one that could enhance naloxone’s ability to fend off more potent opioids, with promising results in mice.

July 3, 2024 - By Nina Bai

Naloxone (orange) treats opioid overdose by kicking out opioids (pink) from the opioid receptor (teal). The newly discovered compound 368 (purple) strengthens the binding of naloxone to the opioid receptor, making it a more effective life-saving medicine. Emily Moskal

Every great superhero needs a sidekick. Now, scientists may have found a drug-busting partner for naloxone.

Naloxone is an opioid antidote that has saved tens of thousands of lives by rapidly reversing opioid overdoses in more than 90% of cases in which it is used. But its powers are temporary, lasting only 30 to 90 minutes. The rise of potent, long-acting opioids such as fentanyl means that someone brought back from the brink can still overdose after the naloxone wears off.

In a new study, Stanford Medicine scientists and collaborators have discovered a novel compound that can work alongside naloxone, supercharging its life-saving effects.

When tested in mice, adding the compound to a miniscule dose of naloxone made it as powerful as the conventional dosage, with the added benefit of milder withdrawal symptoms.

Naloxone, which is given as a nasal spray or injection, works by seizing opioid receptors, kicking out opioids and taking their place. (Naloxone has no addictive properties of its own.) The researchers found that the new compound — known for now as compound 368 — binds next to naloxone on opioid receptors and helpfully holds naloxone in place.

The findings were published July 3 in Nature .

“Naloxone binding to an opioid receptor turns it mostly off, but not all the way,” said Evan O’Brien , PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in molecular and cellular physiology and the lead author of the new study. “Our data shows that compound 368 is able to increase the binding of naloxone and turn the receptor off more completely.”

A new type of drug

The new compound belongs to an unusual class of drugs that don’t directly target the active site on receptors. Instead, they bind elsewhere on the receptor but trigger a structural change that alters the active site. Known as allosteric modulators (allos meaning “other” in Greek), they create new possibilities in drug development, but are trickier to identify, O’Brien said. 

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“Allosteric modulators are not common yet, and they’re a lot more difficult to discover and to work with,” he said.

Compound 368 is the first known allosteric modulator that can help turn off opioid receptors.

The researchers picked out compound 368 from a library of 4.5 billion compounds. Using advanced high-throughput techniques, they were able to screen the entire molecular library in just two days. To identify potential allosteric modulators that could cooperate with naloxone, they selected for compounds that bind only to receptors already saturated with naloxone.

Compound 368 — an otherwise rather unremarkable compound, O’Brien said — stood out for its ability to tightly bind to opioid receptors only in the presence of naloxone. Like a loyal sidekick, it doesn’t work with other drugs, and it doesn’t work alone.

Powers combined

When researchers exposed cells with opioid receptors to compound 368, they found that the compound alone made little difference. But when cells were given the compound with naloxone, the combination was a powerful deterrent against opioid binding.

The more compound 368 they added, the better naloxone was able to block opioids, including morphine and fentanyl.

“The compound itself doesn’t bind well without naloxone,” O’Brien said. “We think naloxone has to bind first, and then compound 368 is able to come in and cap it in place.”

Indeed, using cryoEM imaging to visualize frozen molecular structures, the researchers found that compound 368 docks right next to naloxone on the opioid receptor, forming bonds that secure the drug in place and slow its natural degradation by the body.

Boosting naloxone

Next, collaborators in McLaughlin’s lab tested the new compound in mice that had been given morphine. Because opioids reduce pain sensation, the researchers observed how quickly a mouse removed its tail from hot water. The stronger the opioid antidote, the faster a mouse would take its tail out of the water.

When mice on morphine were treated with compound 368 alone, nothing changed.

“The compound in mice, at least from the assays we’ve run, does nothing on its own,” O’Brien said. “We don’t observe any off-target effects. We don’t see anything happen to the mice even when we inject a massive amount of compound 368.”

This was exactly what the researchers had predicted from their molecular work and a good sign of the compound’s safety, he added.

The more tools at our disposal, the better we’ll be able to fight this epidemic of fentanyl overdoses.

When they also gave the mice a small dose of naloxone — an amount that typically would have no effect — the pairing with compound 368 dramatically improved naloxone’s effects.

“When we start to give them more and more of compound 368 with that low dose of naloxone, they take their tail out of the water pretty quickly,” O’Brien said.

Other effects of opioids, such as respiratory depression (the usual cause of death in opioid overdoses), were also reversed by a small dose of naloxone enhanced with the new compound.

Remarkably, the combination of compound 368 with a half dose of naloxone was strong enough to counter fentanyl, which is about 100 times more potent than morphine and the main culprit of overdoses in the United States.

By requiring less naloxone, the new compound could also ease the withdrawal symptoms that opioid users experience after overdose treatment. These symptoms — including body aches, shivering, nausea and diarrhea — are immediate and can be extremely uncomfortable, O’Brien said.

The researchers found that a low dose of naloxone plus compound 368 could reverse the effects of opioids with much milder withdrawal symptoms — in mice, this meant less teeth chattering, jumping and diarrhea.

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The team, with the Majumdar lab’s expertise in medicinal chemistry, is now tweaking compound 368 so it can help naloxone counter strong opioids for longer durations.

“We’re still working on optimizing the compound’s properties for those longer-lasting effects,” O’Brien said. “But first showing that it works cooperatively with these low doses of naloxone suggests that we’re on the right track.”

O’Brien is optimistic that this track will lead to trials in humans. Overdoses from synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, continue to surge, killing nearly 74,000 Americans in 2022. “The more tools at our disposal, the better we’ll be able to fight this epidemic of fentanyl overdoses,” he said.

Researchers from Kurume University, SLAC National Acceleration Laboratory, Princeton University and University of Copenhagen also contributed to the work.

The study received funding from an American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, the National Institute of Health (grant RO1DA057790) and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

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Written by: Laura Frnka-Davis | Updated: June 03, 2024

A study published this month in Frontiers in Public Health revealed that participation in organized sports and other structured physical activities, in addition to playing outdoors, significantly increased the likelihood of children meeting a recommended daily 60-minute physical activity requirement, according to UTHealth Houston.

Children should have an hour of physical activity each day, according to the American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Led by Christopher D. Pfledderer, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, the research analyzed data of fourth grade children from the 2019-2020 Texas School Physical Activity and Nutrition survey. The survey, an ongoing project conducted by the Michael andSusan Dell Center for Healthy Living at UTHealth Houston, reports on the statewide prevalence of children with obesity and assesses habitual self-reported behaviors, including diet and physical activity. 

“Our work is helping connect the dots between children’s physical activity and the environments in which they are most active,” said Pfledderer, who is a faculty member at the Michael andSusan Dell Center for Healthy Living. “The research is essential to curbing the childhood obesity crisis and helping children create healthy habits earlier in life.” 

The study found that 16.7% of fourth grade children met physical activity guidelines every day during the week, and 1 in 10 children did not meet any of the daily guidelines on any day. Nearly two-thirds, 72%, met physical activity guidelines between one and six days a week.

Key findings from the study included:

•       Outdoor play as a consistent predictor: While sports participation is a significant contributor to children’s physical activity, the study surprisingly revealed that outdoor play was a more consistent predictor of children meeting physical activity requirements.
•       Team sports: A total of 70.1% of children participated in at least one sports team in the past 12 months, and 46.4% participated in other organized physical activities. A higher percentage of girls than boys reported participating in zero sports teams, and a lower percentage of girls reported participating in three or more sports teams.
•       Socioeconomic barriers: Children from schools with higher economic disadvantage met physical activity guidelines on fewer days compared with children from school with lower economic disadvantage. The cost of participating in organized sports was identified as a prohibitive factor for many families, underscoring the need for more accessible and affordable physical activity programs.

Pfledderer hopes to deepen his research by eventually incorporating accelerometer data and examining seasonal weather patterns that could impact children’s physical activity. He also wants to study the impact of living in urban versus rural areas on children’s activity levels.  

“Despite the presence of numerous high-quality interventions, the impact on children’s physical activity levels remains limited,” Pfledderer said. “With Texas ranking 10th for childhood obesity rates and home to nearly 7.5 million children, the need for more informative, large-scale research in this region of the United States is critical.”  

The Texas Department of State Health Services funded the study with the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant to Texas, the CDC, and the Michael andSusan Dell Foundation through the Michael andSusan Dell Center for Healthy Living.

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Weight bias and the resulting stigma and discrimination is a significant public health problem and social justice issue that leads to health inequities. This Public Health Ontario (PHO) Rounds presents Ontario Dietitians in Public Health’s (ODPH) 2024 position statement on an weight-inclusive approach that uses an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed lens. The position statement focuses on equity, positionality, and the intersections of weight bias, stigma and discrimination with racism, colonialism, classism, and sexism. The statement reflects ODPH’s guiding principles of evidence-informed practice, comprehensive health promotion, and health equity. We will present the origins of these recommendations and why a coordinated, interprofessional, weight-inclusive approach is necessary to reduce harm and improve population level health outcomes. Specific recommendations are made for public health regarding communications, supportive environments and policy, education, training/capacity and resources. Intended audience: Public health dieticians, Public Health Unit (PHU) staff with interest in health promotion and equity, program planners, public health nurses, Medical Officers of Health (MOHs), Assistant Medical Officers of Health (AMOHs) By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

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What is Public Health?. by  Andrea Johnson, Rosalande Marcellon, Daisy Marchena, Jesse McKenna, Sonia Nixon, & Catherine Taylor. What is Public Health? 1. Science of protecting and improving the health of communities through Education Promotion of healthy lifestyles

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What is Public Health? by  Andrea Johnson, Rosalande Marcellon, Daisy Marchena, Jesse McKenna, Sonia Nixon, & Catherine Taylor

What is Public Health?1 • Science of protecting and improving the health of communities through • Education • Promotion of healthy lifestyles • Research for disease and injury prevention • Involves studying health effects of • Genetics • Personal choices • Your enviroment • Public Health professionals want to protect populations as small as a local area or as big as the entire world!

What Do We Do?1 • Public health professionals and students think about prevention more than treatment  • Identify a need  • Research • Write policy • Implement an educational program • Administer services •  Why is this important? • Save health care dollars • Reduce health disparities  • Fighting for equal health care, high quality health care, and health care accessible to everyone

Real Life Examples2 • More than 80% of cancers are due to enviromental factors (not genetics!) • Deaths from heart disease have decreased by 60% since 1950 • Seat belts have prevented 3.8 million injuries and saved 135,000 lives since required to be worn by law • Influenza (the flu) causes 36,000 deaths each year in the United States- yearly vaccinations can save these lives THANK YOU PUBLIC HEALTH!

How did we do it?!What does it mean to be a public health professional? 

This is Public Health Video Version 1: http://www.thisispublichealth.org/schools.html#Videos

Health Care Finance / Economics Maternal and Child Health Communication and Health Behavioral Science Emergency Medicine Enviromental Health Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights International Health  Policy and Management Infectious Diseases Health Promotion Research and Evaluation Methods Biostatistics Epidemiology This is Public Health1

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American Public Health Association (APHA) Theme

Safety is NO Accident: Live Injury Free3 • Preventable injuries are one of the top 10 causes of death (people of all ages) • Almost 900,000 children are mistreated each year • 1 pedestrian is injured every 8 minutes in a traffic crash • 2/3 of children killed in a bicycle related death could have been saved if they were wearing a helmet

Safety is NO Accident: Live Injury Free3 Protect Yourself! • At Home • Maintain smoke alarms (change batteries) • Get rid of dangerous areas (uneven flooring/poor lighting) • Never leave food unattended on the stove • At Work • Wear protective equipment (ex: reflective gear, closed toe shoes) • In Your Community •  Help stop school violence and bullying

Safety is NO Accident: Live Injury Free3 Protect Yourself! •  At Play • Wear a bicycle or sports helmet  • Warm up before playing sports • Drink water! Stay hydrated! •  On the Move •  Wear a seatbelt... ALWAYS! •  Don't jaywalk •  No texting / eating / talking on the phone while driving •  Have a Designated Driver

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?!

Chelsea High A sexually active teen who does not use a contraceptive (i.e. condom, birth control) has a _____% chance of becoming pregnant within a year? A. 20% B. 45% C. 100% D. 90%

Chelsea High Although 15–24-year-olds represent only one-quarter of the sexually active population, they account for _________% of the 18.9 million new cases of STIs each year 5. A. 10% B. 50% C. 80% D. 20%

Chelsea High Second hand smoke kills _____ nonsmokers each year from lung cancer 6 A. 100 B. 500 C. 1000 D. 3000

Chelsea High How can you protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases? A. Condoms B. Abstinence D. Answers A & B C. Birth Control

Chelsea High What is the leading cause of death for teens? B. Car Accidents A. Cancer     D. Suicide C. HIV

Chelsea High Thanks to public health efforts, which disease has been completely eradicated? A. smallpox B. hepatitis B C. malaria D. tuberculosis

Chelsea High What is bullying?  B. Sending flowers A. Physical Harm C. Emotional Harm D. Answers A & C

Chelsea High What amount of teens report being bullied at school? A. 1 out of 3 teens B. Half of teens C. All teens D. None

Chelsea High What is cyber-bullying? A. Sending mean texts B. Spreading rumors online C. Threatening someone online D. All of the above

Chelsea High Is cyber-bullying a problem? A. Maybe B. Yes  C. No D. I don't know

Chelsea High Summer is coming, yay!!  However, too much sun exposure (without proper sunscreen usage or other protection), can lead to what? :( A. Skin Cancer B. Wrinkles C. More freckles D. All of the above

Chelsea High How can you protect yourself from too much heat and sun exposure this summer?  B. Wait until you feel your skin burning A. Do not use sunscreen C. Wear sunscreen and drink a lot of water! D. Go tanning

Chelsea High How can you prevent head injuries? wear a helmet B. wear a seatbelt C. do not drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol D. all of the above

Chelsea High Why are teens particularly at-risk for athletic or sport injuries? A. They're awesome, duh! B. They're still growing D. None of the above C. Both A & B

Thank You!!Have questions or want more information? Ask us or your teacher! 

References • Association of Schools of public health. What is public health? Accessed 1 April 2011.  Available from: http://www.whatispublichealth.org/what/index.html. • Association of Schools of public health. 2010. This is public health. Accessed 1 April 2011. Available from: http://www.thisispublichealth.org/FactSheet.html • American Public Health Association. 2011 partner toolkit: safety is no accident: live injury free. http://www.nphw.org/nphw11/pdf/2011NPHW_      toolkit.pdf. 4.Harlap S, Kost K and Forrest JD, Preventing Pregnancy,                 Protecting Health: A New Look at Birth Control Choices in the United States, New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1991. 5.Weinstock H et al., Sexually transmitted diseases among American youth: incidence and prevalence estimates, 2000, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2004, 36(1):6–10.

References 6.http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/teensmoking/a/teensmokefacts.html 7. http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-statistics-2009.html 8. http://www.webmd.com/skin-beauty/guide/sun-exposure-skin-cancer 9. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sunexposure.html 10. http://www.massgeneral.org/children/adolescenthealth/articles/aa_athletic_injuries.aspx

School Information (for us only) Tuesday, 4/5 - 9am-1:30pm Chelsea High School 299 Everett Avenue, Chelsea, Massachusetts 02150 Teacher: Leona Gibbs, [email protected]

Contact Information (for us only) Catherine Taylor [email protected] 614-769-2770 [email protected] Rosalande Marcellon [email protected] 954-298-6670 Sonia Nixon [email protected] 240-535-2533 Daisy Marchena [email protected] 832-618-8598 Andrea Johnson [email protected] 707-287-6150 [email protected]   Jesse McKenna [email protected] 978-866-2760 [email protected]

Answers to Questions     Question 1: D, 90% Questions 2: B, 50% Question 3: C, 3000 Questions 4: D, Condoms and Abstinence Question 5: B, Car Accidents Question 6: A, smallpox Question 7: D, A & C  Question 8: A, 1 out of 3 teens  Question 9: D, all of the above Question 10: B, Yes, - approx 4% of teens report Question 11: D, all of the above Question 12: C, Wear sunscreen and drink a lot of water! Question 13: D, all of the above  Question 14: C, Both A & B

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Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board (SDRAB) Meeting – August 1, 2024

Description

The purpose of this meeting is to update the Advisory Board and public stakeholders on the progress of sleep and circadian research activities across NIH, and the activities of Federal stakeholders and interested organizations. The tentative meeting agenda appears below.

Tentative Agenda

Call to order 1:00 pm (eastern), report from the national center on sleep disorders research (ncsdr).

Marishka Brown, Ph.D. Director, NCSDR, NHLBI, NIH

Leadership Lens: All of Us Updates

Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S. CEO, All of Us

Scientific Focus Presentation

Using 24-Hour Behaviors & Triad as Combined Intervention for Weight Loss Marquis Hawkins, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Epidemiology University of Pittsburgh

Federal Stakeholder Update

Sdrab member discussion.

Lead by Esra Tasali, M.D.

https://nih.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_otFJ3BJ6TZKuU5yghL59GQ#/registration