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?
This concept is part of ALL ten essential health services which actively promote policies, systems and services that ensures everyone has a fair and just opportunity to achieve good health is known as
What is Equity?
What are tobacco and diet/physical activity?
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?
Investigating, diagnosing, and addressing health hazards and root causes are under what core public health function?
What is Assessment?
specific guidelines, standards, operating procedures used to conduct public health programs at local, and state health departments
What is public health practice?
This agency is responsible for disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion, and health education activities to improve health of people in the U.S.
What is Center for Disease Control?
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?
Building a skilled and diverse workforce 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 play an important role in the public health system and works with the government to contribute to positive health outcomes.
What are academia/universities, community, media, employers, unions, healthcare delivery system, philanthropy, policy makers, etc?
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 HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Assessing and monitoring population health is under what core public health function?
What is Assessment?
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?