ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCILS IN THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT LOCAL LEVEL
ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCILS IN THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT LOCAL LEVEL

Summary/Abstract: According to the definition by the World Health Organisation, public health pertains to “all organised measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole.” Public health in the Republic of Macedonia has a long history of providing services and conditions where people can be healthy, thereby focusing on the entire population, not on individual patients or diseases. In the past, such provision of services was referred to as sanitation and hygiene activity, immunisation, epidemiological activity, etc. For the purpose of acquiring global trends, and also awarding special status to this activity in the overall health protection – which, in a wider context, covers preventive and curative services to the individual and population, it was recently renamed “public health”, thus reflecting the separate discipline of providing services and conditions at the level of population and community. The vertical implementation of the fundamental public health functions includes the Public Health Councils, which are responsible for the consistent application of the provisions from the Law on Public Health, in order to promote health and wellbeing of the individual and the local community.

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