Bahrain International Public Health Conference

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Public health

The organised effort to prevent disease, prolong life and improve health across whole populations rather than one patient at a time, delivered through surveillance, policy, screening programmes, health promotion and health-system stewardship.

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Epidemiology

The study of how often diseases and health conditions occur in a population, who they affect and why, using incidence, prevalence and risk-factor data to guide prevention and service planning.

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Disease surveillance

Continuous, systematic collection, analysis and feedback of health data (notifiable diseases, laboratory results, mortality records) so outbreaks and trends are detected early and responded to quickly.

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Health promotion

Planned interventions that help people and communities improve and protect their health, such as tobacco control campaigns, nutrition labelling, physical-activity programmes and workplace wellbeing schemes.

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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

Chronic conditions that are not passed person to person, chiefly cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease; in the Gulf they are a dominant share of the disease burden and a core topic at public health meetings.

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Primary health care (PHC)

First-contact, community-based care covering prevention, screening, chronic-disease management and referral, typically delivered through health centres and family-physician teams rather than hospitals.

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Universal health coverage (UHC)

A health-system goal in which everyone can access needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services without financial hardship, measured through service coverage and out-of-pocket spending indicators.

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Social determinants of health

The conditions in which people are born, grow, work and age - income, housing, education, employment, transport and environment - that drive unequal health outcomes and shape where interventions are targeted.

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One Health

A collaborative approach recognising that human health, animal health and environmental health are interlinked, applied to zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and food-safety surveillance across medical, veterinary and environmental agencies.

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Health system strengthening

Deliberate investment in the six building blocks of a health system - service delivery, workforce, information, medicines and technology, financing, and leadership and governance - so services are reliable at scale.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

The ability of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites to survive medicines that once killed them, driven by overuse and misuse of antibiotics in human and animal health; stewardship and infection control are the main countermeasures.

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Digital health

Use of information and communication technology for health - electronic health records, telemedicine, mHealth apps, wearables and population dashboards - including the governance and interoperability questions that determine whether pilots scale.

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Health emergency preparedness

Readiness to detect, respond to and recover from public health emergencies through risk assessment, stockpiles, surge workforce plans, risk communication and multi-agency simulation exercises.

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Preventive screening

Testing apparently healthy people for early signs of disease (for example blood pressure, HbA1c, cervical or breast cancer screening) so treatment starts sooner and complications fall.