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What is Public Health Answer: "What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in
which people can be healthy"- IOM
Public Health and Prevention Answer: Public health professionals try to prevent problems from
happening or re-occurring.
Public Health and Population Focus Answer: Public health is concerned with protecting the health of
entire populations.
These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country.
Definition of Health Answer: "A state of COMPLETE physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity." --World Health Organization (WHO)
10 Major Public Health Achievements Answer: 1.Vaccination
2.Motor-vehicle safety
3.Safer workplaces
4.Control of infectious diseases
5.Decline in death from coronary heart disease and stroke
6.Safer and healthier foods
7.Healthier mothers and babies
8.Family planning
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,9.Flouridation of drinking water
10.Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
Core functions of public health Answer: 1. Assessment
2.Policy Development
3.Assurance
Assessment Answer: Assemble, analyze and make available information on the health of the
community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic and other
studies of health problems.
Policy Development Answer: Every public health agency shall exercise its responsibility to serve the
public interest in the development of comprehensive public health policies by promoting use of the
scientific knowledge base in decision-making about public health and by leading in developing public
health policy.
Assurance Answer: Public health agencies should assure their constituents that services necessary
to achieve agreed upon goals are provided, either by:
-Encouraging actions by other entities (private or public sector)
-Requiring action through regulation
-Providing services directly
4 sections of Public Health Infrastructure Answer: 1.Federal Level
2.State Level
3.Local Level
4.Nongovermental Organizations (NGOs)
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, Federal Level Answer: Funding: Federal Taxes
-DHHS plays the largest role
-others include: Department of Homeland Security, Education, Agriculture, Defense, Transportation etc
DHHS Functions Answer: -Policy making
-Financing
-Public health protection
State Level Answer: Funding: State taxes and Federal Grants
-Funded mainly from state taxes and federal grants
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) Answer: -Non-profit groups that operate independently
from the gov't
-Critical to carrying out public health initiatives through education, lobbying, research
Local Level Answer: Funding:
-Local property/sales taxes
-funding from the state
-funding for specific services from the federal gov't, fees for services
Impact of industrialization and imperialism Answer: -Rapid industrialization meant an increasingly
urban population
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