three broad areas for pharmacy educator to concentrate on- public health, systems management, and pharmaceutical care- from the Center for the Advancement of Pharmaceutical Education

Disease prevention

activities that are implemented with the desired outcome of a decreased incidence of morbidity and mortality

• -     Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems
• -     Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
• -     Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
• -     Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems
• -     Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
• -     Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
• -     Link ppl to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
• -     Assure a competent public and personal healthcare workforce
• -     Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services
• -     Research for new insights and innovative solution to health problems

Health

 While there are many definitions of health, the World Health definition- physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity- works especially well in public health

Healthy People 2020

  a project that has collaboratively developed a series of national objectives that are focused on prevention, including a series of leading health indicators with objectives for 2010

Public health 

 the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort.