Health Impact Pyramid

The Health Impact Pyramid is a framework that illustrates how different public health strategies vary in their effectiveness to improve health. At the base, actions that address socioeconomic factors (like education and poverty) have the greatest impact. Above that, interventions focused on changing the environment (like smoking bans) have significant benefits. The next tier involves clinical interventions (like vaccinations), followed by counseling and education at the top. This pyramid emphasizes that broader social changes tend to affect more people positively, while individual-focused strategies, while important, typically reach fewer people and have a smaller overall impact on population health.