| Health: | Officially, “Health” is defined as “a state of being free from illness or injury.” In truth, health is a dynamic and complex concept and is not merely the absence of disease. It encompasses several dimensions of well-being – physical, spiritual, cultural, emotional, environmental, and many more. |
| Public Health: | The complete state of well-being of the people; The art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. |
| Community Health: | Aims to identify and address unmet health and social service needs at the basic level of society within a particular a geographic area(s) to help residents overcome barriers to access. Very |
| Population Health: | An health approach that focuses on outcomes within a group of people rather than the individual; factors in broader issues that surpass geography. |
| Intervention: | Any attempt or effort to focused on improving health outcomes for a particular community or population |
| Prevention: | Activities to stop negative health outcomes and effects; typically categorized in to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary prevention |
| Endemic: | Endemic is natural to, prevalent within, and confined to a particular area. |
| Epidemic: | While similar to pandemic, an epidemic in an “outbreak” of a disease that spreads relatively fast to a large quantity of a population, however stays within a smaller geographic area. |
| Pandemic: | Pandemic is Greek in origin and formed from two words: “pan” meaning “all” and “demos” meaning “the people”. A pandemic is “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (i.e., several countries or continents), and typically affects a significant proportion of the population”. |