Public Health Model is unlike a Crime Control Model which focuses on punishment or moralizing with the offender. A public health model looks at particular kinds of crime, like drug abuse, prostitution, youth violence, as public health issues. In public health model, a public health officer takes a very different view of crime than does a police constable.
The public health model encourages us to think of ways to stop the spread of drug abuse or violence, for example, or how to prevent drug abusers from harming themselves or spreading infection to the community, or on initiating education programs in schools to teach young people how to recognize the possible onset of violence, how to prevent it, and who to call if violence is experienced.
The public health model and its application highlight the need for systematic salutogenic indicator development in the field of public health and for strengthening the health promotion perspective in the future. The challenge for the public health model is to find ‘scripts’ that journalists deem to be publicly consumable and ratings friendly.
Implications of Public
Health for Policy on Sexual Violence, KATHLEEN C. BASILE.
Division of Violence Prevention,Best Replica Watches National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the last ten years, researchers and practitioners have written about why sexual
violence in particular should be viewed as a public health issue, and the importance of
prevention of sexual violence. However, little has been written
about how to accomplish this. I describe steps that could be taken using the
public health approach to better achieve prevention of sexual violence. Most research and
prevention related to sexual violence have focused on the individual and relationship
levels. The paper concludes with some examples of potential preventive measures and
policies consistent with a public health model.
Youth gambling: A public
health perspective.
Carmen Messerlian and Jeffrey L. Derevensky, McGill.
Abstract: Over the last decade research in the area of youth gambling has led to a better
understanding of the risk factors, trajectories and problems associated with this
behaviour. At the same time,replica watches governments have begun to recognize the importance of youth
gambling and have offered to support research and treatment programs. Yet, public health
and prevention in the realm of youth gambling has only recently drawn the attention of
researchers and health professionals. Early work by Korn and Shaffer (1999) set the
groundwork for a public health approach to gambling.
Evaluation of Error in
Medicine - Application of a Public Health Model
Karen J. Brasel, Peter M. Layde, Stephen Hargarten. ABSTRACT: A case of a chest tube placed on the wrong side during a trauma resuscitation in
the emergency department is presented as an example of medical injury. Two traditional
models, the legal model and the managerial model, are described and their application to
medical injury discussed. A new public health model is then applied to the case example as
a more effective way to address medical injury.Best Replica Watches The public health model addresses the
injury event rather than the error itself using Haddon's matrix as a framework. Pre-event,
event, and post-event phases are examined to find the weakest link, where intervention has
the highest likelihood of successfully preventing future injuries.
The EUHPID Health Development Model for the classification of public health
indicators
Georg Bauer, John Kenneth Davies, Juergen Pelikan. The European Community Health Promotion Indicator Development Model has been developed as
the basis for establishing a European set of indicators for monitoring health promotion
interventions. This paper offers the public health model more generally as a common frame
of reference for broader public health practice and indicator development. The public
health model builds around the physical, mental and social health of individuals and shows
how health develops by interaction between individual and environmental health
determinants.
‘Bullets as bacteria’
Television news magazines’ use of the public health model for reporting
violence. Renita Coleman, Louisiana State University, David D. Perlmutter, Louisiana State
University. Surveys of mass media content related to social violence suggest that it generally focuses
on the individual, atomistic ‘act’ rather than
issues of cause and prevention. Doctors, health
officials and activists have pushed for a 'public health model' of reporting
news about crime and violence that looks at interactions between the victim, the agent of
injury or death, and the environment in which the injury or death took place rather than
viewing it in strictly individual terms. The emphasis on entertainment seemed to negate
any promised ‘public health model’ angles.
A public health model of
the social determinants of health. Ansari Z, Carson NJ, Ackland MJ, Vaughan L,
Serraglio A.
Health Surveillance and Evaluation Section, Public Health Group (PHG), Department of Human
Services (DHS), Melbourne.
As we move forward in the new century, epidemiologists and public health practitioners are
faced with the challenge of reviewing the current direction of epidemiology and its links
with public health. This paper presents a
public health model of social determinants of health, which provides a framework for
testing the causal pathways linking social determinant variables with health care system
attributes, disease inducing behaviours and health outcomes. This approach provides an
improved opportunity to identify and evaluate
empirical evidence-based public health interventions,
and facilitates stronger links between modern epidemiology and public health
model practice.
Reconsidering the public health failings of the criminal justice system: a
reflection on the case of Scott Ortiz
Thomas Kerr
Abstract: Throughout most of the world, the primary response to the health and social
impacts of illicit drug use has been to intensify the enforcement of drug laws. This has led to calls from public
health and prisoner advocacy groups to prison authorities to improve health services
available in the community and those available to prisoners. The case of Scott Ortiz illuminates a new set of
challenges for prisoners and their advocates as judges often have a faulty understanding
of public health model arguments and data. In this case we see one such instance where a judge
acts in ways not rooted in sound public health model evidence or practice to produce a perverse
outcome that violates both sound medical and judicial objectives.