“Public Health ... Prevention and Community Health”
Jeddah, under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, Professor and Consultant of Family and Community Medicine, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja. On the tenth of Muharram, corresponding to August 8, 2022, the interactive remote meeting “public health ... prevention and community health” will be launched. The interactive meeting discusses 7 main themes: - Infectious diseases in case of epidemics. Infection prevention and control in health facilities. The importance of epidemiology in health care delivery. Describe and explain whether public health is the missing link in health systems development. Determinants of disease prevention and health promotion. The importance of public health and the use of a distinct approach to promoting community health. Global developments in the field of public health. The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties has approved 15 hours of continuing medical education for the activities of the health meeting. In a related context, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja said that the concept of health promotion means the process of enabling members of societies to increase control over their health and improve its level, as health promotion focuses on complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or disability. The application of the concept of health promotion and health education It requires actions specific to behavioral risk factors and risk factors related to the living conditions of members of communities, the higher the health culture in the community, the more able they are to protect their health. He added that behavioral studies are necessary to understand the tendency of individuals towards some risk factors and should be a basis for preparing interventions and promoting health and health education. In addition to promoting health education, it is important that individuals live in environments conducive to health and that this healthy environment is supported through public health policies. that reduce exposure to risk factors. Professor Khoja concluded by saying: Epidemics are unexpected, and often surprising, diseases in the rates of infection with a particular disease within a local community or a region, while a pandemic occurs when a specific epidemic spreads all over the world, (as is the case of Corona) beyond international borders. It affects large numbers of members of societies, and a number of infectious diseases can pose major health threats at the local, regional and global levels, leading to the outbreak of epidemics or pandemics, and epidemics and pandemics can be prevented and mitigated by taking a set of precautionary and preventive measures at both levels. At home and in the community, such as following the rules of good hygiene, social distancing, and taking the necessary vaccinations.
