Core Functions & Essential public health services
__________, policy, and assurance are core public health functions
What is Assessment?
Leading cause of death in the U.S. today
What is heart disease?
What 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 (FDA)?
this is essential to the community health assessment and improvement process
What is community engagement?
The organization, financing, and provision of personal healthcare services for prevention and treatment of disease, illness, and injury in the U.S.
What is healthcare system?
Researching for new insights and innovative solution to health problems is an example of what public health function
What is Cross Cutting core function?
Women over age of 50 getting mammograms is an example of what type of prevention
What is secondary prevention?
Public health falls under which US government agency
What is the Department of Health and Human Services?
what the organization does and how it does it
What is mission statement?
type of law that is common, based on tradition, and previous court decisions
What is judicial law?
Cultural competence of staff, Educating and training personnel and ensuring appropriate licensure is part of what essential public health service?
What is ensuring a competent public and personal healthcare workforce?
specific guidelines, standards, operating procedures used to conduct public health programs at local, and state health departments
What is public health practice?
individuals having a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential
Guidelines, standards, and operating procedures used by state and local health departments to conduct public health programs
What is public health practice?
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?
Enforcing laws and regulation is under what core public health function?
What is Assurance?
Weight bearing exercises twice a week after diagnosis of osteoporosis is an example of what type of prevention
What is tertiary prevention?
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?
Safeguards medical information and includes establishes standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information.
What is the HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Vital statistics is an example of what essential public health service?
What is Monitoring health status to identify community health problems?
this bucket of prevention represents total population or community wide prevention. The public health system falls in this category.
What is the third bucket of prevention?
What 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?
Allows children to stay on parents insurance until age 26, covers preventative services, provides coverage for pre-existing conditions for newly insured people
What is the Affordable Care Act?