🏥 Health Services and their Activities
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Keywords: (Public Health Administration)(Health Services)(Public Health Office)(Health Center)(Health Examination)(Health Consultation)(Health Education)(Vaccination)(Health Information)
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“Public Health Administration”
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Organized activities for health that cannot be done individually, carried out with public responsibility.
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Classification of Public Health Administration
- 🏘 General Public Health Administration
- Focuses on the lives of families and local communities.
- 🏫 School Health Administration
- Focuses on school life.
- 🏭 Industrial Health Administration
- Focuses on the lives of workers in the workplace.
- 🌳 Environmental Administration
- Pollution control, environmental conservation, etc.
- 🏘 General Public Health Administration
Health Services
- 🩺 Health Examinations
- Human health check-ups, cancer screenings, etc.
- To detect and address diseases or abnormalities at an early stage.
- 👨⚕️ Health Consultations
- Counseling provided by public health nurses.
- 📕 Health Education
- Education on prevention, early detection, and management of health issues.
- 💉 Vaccinations
- Prevention of diseases such as influenza, polio, and Japanese encephalitis.
- 📺 Provision of Health Information
- Providing information and materials for promoting health.
- Others: HIV antibody testing, prevention of lifestyle diseases, etc.
Structure of Public Health Administration
- 🏥 “Public Health Offices” serve as the base for public health administration (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare).
- Various experts work to protect the health of the community.
- Disease prevention, information gathering, monitoring of restaurants, etc.
- 🏢 “Health Centers” in each municipality
- Provide accessible health services.
- Offer prevention classes for lifestyle diseases, parenting exchange meetings, etc.
- Differences
- Public Health Offices provide wide-ranging and specialized services.
- Health Centers provide more localized health services.
Public Health Administration during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The third wave of COVID-19 with no end in sight - Public health offices struggling with increasing cases.
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One of the main roles of public health offices in responding to COVID-19 is to track the movement of the virus through “epidemiological investigations.”
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Shinichiro Hata, Chief of the COVID-19 Response Division in the city, says, “Although we have support staff, we are working late into the night every day to somehow manage the situation.”
- Public health offices are organizations of “experts,” so there is a shortage of manpower.
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“In the Hanshin region, hospitals that accept severe cases are becoming overwhelmed, making coordination increasingly difficult,” he appealed.
- Public health offices operate on a wider scale than health centers.
