Review article by Griffith

Griffiths, S., Jewell, T. and Donnelly, P., 2005. Public health in practice: The three domains of public health. Public health, 119(10), pp.907-913.

This journal explains about the three domains of public health. Those three domains are health protection, health improvement and health service delivery and quality.
I would like to review about the first scheme. This is the basic knowledge that maybe medical students should know about public health. Those three things had to be understood by all medical students so that later on, it could be implemented in the real setting. Perhaps, there should be some kind of a specific training or seminar for medical students so that they can get familiar with the domains which would help them implement it later in the real settings.
This scheme also shows that director of public health have authority to improve our health system. But most of public health expertise doesn't deal with the problem directly in the field. Maybe, in my opinion that might be the reason why most of program that has been established can't be implemented correctly.

In this journal, they provide a case study about delivering teenage pregnancy as a public health program.

If this program is applied in Indonesia, maybe one of program in health service delivery and quality like abortions can't be implemented. Moreover, the cultural and religion aspect in the rural area of Indonesia is quite influential.  One of approach that might be considerable is through the health information like schools or education that can prevent the teenage pregnancy. Because the consequences of teen pregnancy that hardly prevented is health condition, whether mentally or physically. But, I think this one is a really good example if we want to place it in the real settings according to the three domains of public health. We can learn the struggle to choose the suited program for each areas, each cultures, each community, etc. The more I learn about it, the more I realized that it will have a good impact if one program can be implemented in one community, and so on.

Aurisa Winda Kusumawardani