Overview of a Complex Infrastructure
This focuses on entire populations and the design of policies, systems, services, and environments to achieve not just the absence of disease, but a collective sense of well-being.
What is Public Health?
These federal departments assure pure food and drugs.
What is the FDA and USDA?
One of these assumptions is the distinction between public health and health care delivery systems.
What is the public interest or working at a societal or community level?
This helps people avoid the onset of a health condition, including injuries.
What is Primary Prevention?
These are the core functions of public health.
What are assessment, policy development and assurance?
This historically focused on regulating and improving community sanitation, monitoring environmental hazards, and care of poor mothers and children.
What is Public Health?
This federal department monitors and controls infectious diseases.
What is the CDC?
This public health achievement prevents the spread of infectious disease.
What is vaccination?
This identifies and treats people who have risk factors or preclinical disease.
What is secondary prevention?
This core function monitors the problem and diagnoses and investigates causes.
What is assessment?
This law enabled health departments to reorganize and direct more resources to prevention as more people received health insurance.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare?
This addresses behavior and lifestyle which is the combination of educational and environmental supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to health.
What is health promotion?
This public health achievement reduced the number of traffic-related deaths and injuries.
What is motor vehicle safety?
This is treatment to people with an established disease in order to restore their highest functions, minimize negative impact, and prevent complications.
What is tertiary prevention?
This core function monitors develops policies, informs, educates, and empowers people about health issues, and mobilizes the community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
What is policy development?
This government requires seat belts and air bags in cars but this law mandates seat belt use and the penalties for violation, while this municipal authority generally enforce the laws.
What is the federal government, state law, and local police?
These nongovernmental organizations achieve public health goals.
What is the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, United Way Worldwide, and YMCA?
This public health achievement reduced tooth decay and promote oral health by adding fluoride to public water.
What is fluoridation of drinking water?
Encouraging regular checkups for detecting and treating high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and other risk factors. This is an example of...
What is secondary prevention for individual medical care?
This core function enforces laws and regulations, evaluates effectiveness, and ensures competent public and personal health care workforce .
What is assurance?
These four factors account for the complexity and diffuse responsibility for public health in the United States.
What is the 1) U.S. Constitution (calls for decentralized government), 2) American tendency to design laws, policies, and organizations that are problem-specific, 3) heavy reliance on nongovernmental organizations, and 4) broad definition of health goals and ongoing debates over what should be done to achieve them.
This nonprofit organization develops and implements a voluntary national accreditation program (performance standards) that guides public health agencies in ensuring they provide high-quality, equitable, and effective public health services at the state and local levels and tribal and territorial health departments.
What is the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)?
This public health achievement reduced injuries, occupational illnesses, and fatalities across various industries.
What is safer workplaces?
Mounting public service campaigns about the importance of controlling blood pressure and "knowing your numbers" for cholesterol, provides guidelines to medical care providers on diagnosis of blood pressure and hypercholesterolemia. This is an example of...
What is secondary prevention for public health?
Local, state, tribal, and federal agencies all have strengths and resources for public health. However, they have primary authority for public health under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.