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
Improving services
- Clinical effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Service planning
- Audit and evaluation
- Clinical governance
- Equity
Health Protection
- Infectious diseases
- Chemicals and poisons
- Radiation
- Emergency response
- Environmental health hazards
* Griffiths S, Jewell T, Donnelly P. Public health in practice: the three domains of public health. Public Health 2005; 119: 907-913.
