Three key domains of public health practice *

The Faculty defines three overlapping domains in which public health specialists practice:

Health Improvement

  • Inequalities
  • Education
  • Housing
  • Employment
  • Family/community
  • Lifestyles
  • Surveillance and monitoring of specific diseases and risk factors

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Improving services

  • Clinical effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Service planning
  • Audit and evaluation
  • Clinical governance
  • Equity

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Health Protection

  • Infectious diseases
  • Chemicals and poisons
  • Radiation
  • Emergency response
  • Environmental health hazards

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* Griffiths S, Jewell T, Donnelly P. Public health in practice: the three domains of public health. Public Health 2005; 119: 907-913.