pharmacies (public health)

Understanding Public Health According to Winslow (1920) that the Public Health (Public Health) is the Science and Art: prevent disease, prolong life and improve health, through "community organizing efforts" to: (Notoatmodjo, 2003)

         1. Improved environmental sanitation
         2. Eradication of infectious diseases
         3. Education for personal hygiene
         4. Organizing medical services and treatment for early diagnosis and treatment.
         5. Development of social engineering to ensure every person met the needs of living in maintaining health.
According to the American Medical Association (1948) Public Health is the science and art maintain, protect and improve public health through community organizing efforts. From this restriction can be concluded that public health was expanded from just dealing sanitation, sanitary engineering, curative medicine, preventive medicine to social science, and that the scope of public health sciences.Many disciplines who serve as the basic science of public health, among others, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Environmental Health, Sociology, Education, Psychology, Anthropology, and others. Based on this reality, public health science is a multidisciplinary science. But in general, the science disciplines that underpin public health, or often referred to as the main pillar of Public Health Sciences include:1. Public Health Administration.2. Health Education and Behavioral Sciences.3. Biostatistics / Health Statistics.4. Environmental Health.5. Nutrition Society.6. Occupational Health.7. Epidemiology.Why public health science is a multi-disciplinary science, because it basically is multikausal Public Health Problem, then pemecahanya must be multidisciplinary. Therefore, public health as the art or practice has a broad expanse. All activities directly or indirectly to prevent the disease (preventive), improving health (promotion), therapy (physical therapy, mental, and social) or curative, as well as recovery (rehabilitative) health (physical, mental, social) is a public health efforts. (Notoatmodjo, 2003)Broadly speaking, efforts can be categorized as art or application of public health science are as follows:1. Eradication of the disease, whether infectious or not infectious.2. Improved environmental sanitation3. Improvement of residential environment4. Vector Eradication5. Education (education) of public health6. Maternal and Child Health Services7. Development of community nutrition8. Sanitation Control of Public Places9. Drug and Drink10. Development of Community Participation