Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Future of Public Health
In 1920 CEA Winslow, Professor of Public Health at Yale and leading figure in the history of public health, described the public health practice as the science and art of disease; prolonging life and promoting health and well-being through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the contol of the communicable infections, the organization of medical and nursing servicesnfor the early diagnosis and prevention of disease, the education of the individual in personal health and the development of the social machinery to assure everyone a standard living adequate for the maintenance or improvement of health.
This definition is still pertinent today, over 85 years later.
The New York State Nurses Association states that the role of the public health nurse is critical to the promotion and maintenance of the public’s health; the public’s health is at much greater risk without enhanced public funding to bolster the public health nursing workforce; and
public health nursing recruitment could be enhanced with better access to formal public health education, clinical and managerial education, and advanced public health nursing education especially in rural areas.
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