Core Public Health Functions
Regularly and systematically collecting, assembling, analyzing, and making available information on health needs of the community.
What is assessment?
Coalition building, collaborating with outside agencies, advocacy and budget justification
What are examples of "mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems"?
Strategies to improve lifestyle and address personal behaviors
What is health promotion?
Complexities of associated determinants of health
Why are many current health issues low yield and high cost, making it difficult to address them?
Health care providers, volunteer organizations, community organizations
Who should be included in public health descisions?
Promoting the use of scientific knowledge in decision making and the development of legislation
What is policy development?
Communicable disease prevention, outbreak investigation and control, lead investigation
What are examples of "diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community"?
Environmental and regulatory activities
What is health protection?
Long-term policy change
What is needed instead of short-term management to address public health issues?
What makes it possible for governmental health agencies to ensure access to care?
Guaranteeing that residents have access to health services
What is assurance?
Require continuing education, professional education and training, leadership training
What are examples of "ensure a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce?
Counseling, screening and immunization
What are preventive services?
Fragmentation of responsibilities
What has resulted due to a number of different agencies using separate approaches to public health problems?
Schools, businesses, and media
What organizations without an explicit health designation have important public health roles?
Removing the pump handle
What did John Snow due to end the Cholera Outbreak on Broad Street?
Case management, school health outreach, transportation
What are examples of "linking people to needed personal health services"?
What were three target areas for eliminating health disparities in Healthy People 2000?
Competition for resources
Change the community, devise a shared view of health and illness, work together on healthcare provision
What are 3 elements of the medicine-public health initiative?
Food sanitation, shellfish sanitation, radon management
What are examples of "enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety"?
A metric to measure health that includes physical and mental health and their determinants
What is Health Related Quality of Life?
CDC, HRSA, and FDA
What are the federal health agencies that need to coordinate to develop information and recommendations?
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)
What had the potential to create effective partnerships between public health and community partners?