3rd Webinar on

Public Health and Family Welfare

June 25, 2022

Public Health Webinar

Theme: Challenges in Public Health

The 3rd Webinar on Public Health and Family Welfare, which will take place on June 25, 2022, is open to all health care professionals, university professors, researchers, and delegates. Public Health Webinar will be focusing on the theme “Challenges in Public Health”. We appreciate you all coming together in one place to share your essential insights on Food safety, Healthcare-associated infections, Heart disease and stroke, Nutrition, physical activity and obesity and Health Communication and Information Technology.

Session 01: Food safety
It is critical to have enough safe and nutritious food to maintain life and promote excellent health. More than 200 diseases, ranging from diarrhoea to cancer, are caused by contaminated food carrying harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical compounds. It also feeds a vicious cycle of disease and hunger, which disproportionately affects newborns, small children, the elderly, and the sick. To help assure food safety and stronger food systems, good coordination between governments, producers, and consumers is required.

Session 02: Healthcare-associated infections
To treat patients and help them recover, modern healthcare uses a variety of invasive technologies and procedures. Infections have been linked to medical devices such as catheters and ventilators. Central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and ventilator-associated pneumonia are examples of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Surgical site infections are infections that can arise at the surgical site. Because these illnesses pose a significant risk to patient safety, the CDC strives to monitor and prevent them. Approximately 1 in 31 inpatients has an infection connected to hospital care at any given moment. Tens of thousands of people die each year as a result of these diseases, which cost the US health-care system billions of dollars each year.

Session 03: Heart disease and stroke
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Heart disease and stroke, as well as other cardiovascular diseases, are among the most common and costly health concerns facing the United States today, accounting for over $320 billion in yearly health-care costs and related expenses. Fortunately, they're also among the easiest to avoid. It's still difficult to keep risk factors for heart disease and stroke under control. The national epidemic of cardiovascular disease continues to be fueled by high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, and high blood cholesterol. In the United States, around one in every three persons has high blood pressure, and only about half of them have it under control. High salt intake can raise blood pressure and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, but over 90% of American people consume more sodium than is recommended on a daily basis.

Session 04: Nutrition, physical activity and obesity
Good nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight are important factors in an individual's overall health and well-being. The combination of these can reduce the risk of developing serious health problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Eating a healthy diet, doing regular physical activity, and achieving and maintaining a healthy weight are also paramount to managing health problems and can only get worse over time. There is none. The most important benefit of a healthy diet and physical activity is to reduce the risk of obesity. Obesity is some of the major risk factors for today's most serious health and chronic illnesses, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and osteoarthritis. Obesity is also associated with many forms of cancer.

Session 05: Health Communication and Information Technology
Health and behavioural ideas are shaped by the communication, information and technology that people interact with on a daily basis. Health Communication and Health Information Technology (IT) are central to health care, public health, and the way our society sees health. These processes determine how and situations professionals and the general public seek, understand, and use health information, and have a significant impact on health decisions and behaviour. Communication and effective use of technology by medical and public health workers can usher in an era of patient and community-centric health information and services.
The strategic combination of health IT tools and effective health communication processes has the following possibilities:

• Improving the quality and safety of healthcare
• Increase the efficiency of delivering health care and public health services
• Improve public health information infrastructure
• Community and home care support
• Facilitate clinical and consumer decision making
• Build health skills and knowledge

  • Food safety
  • Healthcare-associated infections
  • Heart disease and stroke
  • Nutrition, physical activity and obesity
  • Health Communication and Information Technology