Definitions
the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
What is health promotion?
agency responsible for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health and health promotion/education activities to improve health in the U.S.
What is the Centers of Disease Control?
agency responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes including American Indian and Alaska Native people.
What is Indian Health Service?
what the organization does and how it does it
The organization, financing, and provision of personal healthcare services for prevention and treatment of disease, illness, and injury in the U.S.
What is the Healthcare System?
specific guidelines, standards, operating procedures used to conduct public health programs at local, and state health departments
What is Public Health Practice?
organization is responsible for safety and quality of drugs/medicine, food, cosmetics, dietary supplements, veterinary medicine, and tobacco products
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
program provides funds to states to provide nutritious foods, counseling on healthy eating, and breastfeeding support to low-income women, infants, and children
What is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, infants, and Children (WIC)?
The three pillars of public health practice
What is strategic planning, CHA, and CHIP?
type of law that is common, based on tradition, and previous court decisions
What is judicial law?
refers to specific group of healthcare providers (doctors, medical staff, hospitals, clinics) that are responsible for providing healthcare to the populations they serve.
What is healthcare delivery system?
the agency which includes bureau of primary health care, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, office of rural health.
What is the Maternal and Child Health Block grant?
this is essential to the community health assessment and improvement process
What is community engagement?
type of power that protects health and restrict individual rights to extent allowable under the constitution; only civil penalties can be imposed
What is police power?
used for optimizing an organizations performance
What is Strategic planning?
these organizations plays an important role in the public health system and works with the government to contribute to positive health outcomes
What are non-governmental organizations and non-health related governmental organizations?
provides all 50 states to include the Washington D.C., U.S. territories, and two native American tribes with funding to address their unique public health needs related to the Healthy People objectives.
Preventative Health and Health Services Block Grant
the acronym SWOT
What is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?
Safeguards medical information and includes establishes standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information.
What is the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
coordinated system of emergency management that is used at the federal, state, and local levels during an emergency response
What is Incident Command System or Incident Management System?
the office that the Surgeon General, office of disease prevention and health promotion, and the office of infectious disease fall under
What is the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health?
public health departments need to consider these strategic moves for the future
Consider broader needs of populations (From Program to Populations)
Health departments working with in the healthcare system (From Clinic to Community)
Implement policies across the health impact pyramid (From Patients to Policies)
Program evaluation, performance management, and quality improvement are important for what.
What is Strategic Plan Implementation?
the goal of the ___________________ was to address health care costs, improve quality of healthcare and improve overall health status through health insurance and healthcare system reform
What is the Affordable Care Act?