ICYMI
What are housing, transportation, safety, parks, walkability, zip codes?
Role often performed by a Physician
What is Health Officer?
What is public health?
This occupation prepares and manages the public health response to all hazards events
What is Emergency Preparedness Worker?
The number of cases considered to be a foodborne illness outbreak
What is two?
Technical occupations in the Public Health Workforce
Who are research assistants, medical/health aides, computer specialist, EMTs, dental technicians, etc?
Essential knowledge, skills, and abilities that enable individuals to perform their job role effectively.
What are core competencies?
is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to make health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
What is Health Literacy?
the services provided by the _________health department includes infectious disease surveillance, chronic disease prevention programs, noise pollution, regulation of food service, inspections on drinking water
What is the local health department?
This person analyzed the patterns of death in the cholera outbreak in London
Who is John Snow?
design, organize, implement, communicate, evaluate, and provide advice regarding programs and strategies designed to support and modify health related behaviors of persons, families, organizations, and communities.
Who are Health Educators?
important approach to economic analysis of public health programs which compares the economic benefits (i.e. reduced health care costs) of an intervention against its total cost.
What is Return on Investment?
This core competency focuses on establishing relationships to improve community health
What is Community Partnership Skills?
Examples of health outcomes
Health care cost, morbidity, mortality, life expectancy, health status, functional limitations
Name two characteristics of the public health approach
What is Grounded in science, focused on prevention, founded on health equity & social justice, dedicated to ethical principles, linked with government, inherently political nature?
Collects data on workplace environments and exposures
Who are Occupational Health & Safety Specialist?
A coordinated system of emergency management that is used in federal, state, and local levels during emergency response
What is Incident Command System or Incident Management System?
This core competency focuses on describing systems, policies, and events impacting public health such as knowing public health history and achievements in public health
What is Public Health Science Skills?
Healthcare team such as doctors, nurses, therapists describe this sphere in the four-level U.S. healthcare model.
What is the relationship sphere?
Name the 10 Great Public Health Achievements
What are Vaccinations, motor vehicle safety, employee/worker safety, control of infectious diseases, safe and health foods, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, recognition of tobacco as health hazard, decrease in deaths from heart disease and stroke, healthy moms and babies?
Name support service occupations within public health.
What are clerical/administrative, attorney, quality management, human resources, business support, accountant, operations, grants/contract specialist, etc?
Name the core competencies of public Health professionals
What are...
1. Data Analytics and Assessment Skills 2. Policy Development/Program Planning 3. Communication Skills 4. Health Equity Skills 5. Community Partnership Skills 6. Public Health Sciences 7. Management and Finance Skills 8. Leadership & Systems Thinking Skills
Name the Public Health era we are presently in which focuses on engaging multiple sectors and community partners to generate collective impact and improve social determinants of health
What is Public Health 3.0?