Public health
Public health is the science and systems designed to create community, statewide and nationwide conditions that promote health, prevent disease, and encourage healthy behaviors across the entire population. Good health results not only from proper medical care but also from efforts to craft and implement public policies and programs to protect and improve the health of all people. Examples of public health efforts include educating the public about healthier choices, promoting physical activity and fitness, preventing disease outbreaks and the spread of infectious diseases, ensuring safe food and water in communities, preparing for emergency, preventing injury, treating water with fluoride for oral and dental health, and creating smoke-free environments and discouraging tobacco use. SPRC aims to work in the domain of policymaking and highlight public health issues and create awareness among communities regarding the subject through its hardcore research.
Pandemics
A pandemic is a disease outbreak that spreads across countries or continents. It affects more people and takes more lives than an epidemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic when it became clear that the illness was severe and that it was spreading quickly over a wide area. Pandemics not only causes mortality and health related loss, but they cause huge burden on the economies as well. Pakistan in the wake of Covid-19 also faced huge socio-economic risks but timely management to deal with the crises is acknowledged by the global community. SPRC is one of those research think tanks who produced a wide range of research on Covid-19 and published a report based on the socio-economic vulnerabilities faced by the people during this pandemic and we aim to work further in the policy making regarding the social protection during pandemics and other shocks.