The Difference Between Population Health and Public Health

Denise Koo, MD, MPH, CAPT, USPHS, Advisor to the Associate Director for Policy at the CDC, explains the difference between population health and public health.

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I sympathise with the comment below by R. Haguetha, it does sound confusing but it makes sense after reflection. Public health is what we professionals with partners and communities do that improves a populations health. Whereas population health is used to discuss the health outcomes (what health problems/positives there are) within a population whether country, region or district. Community health could be used to mean the health outcomes of a specific community group e.g. ethnic group, women/men, LGBTQ+ or neighbourhood but some public health professionals argue that it can also be seen as a way of doing public health that focuses on engaging and getting community sinvolved in hiking to do public health e.g. co-creation, community-led, action research type approaches.

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Very useful and informative

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The well-being of the whole community and the well-being of the general

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Public health approaches is what anyone can do.
Public health is about multi sector collaboration

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Thanks u