1. What are the three core functions of public health?
The three core functions of public health are assessment, policy development, and assurance.
The assessment helps in monitoring a environmental and health status to help identify and solve, community environmental and health problems. It provides surveillance for diseases/injury by systematically collecting, monitors trends; analyzes the causes, and identifies the needs to make available information on healthy communities.
Policy development is to help inform, educate, and empower people about environment health issues, development ways to promote the use of a scientific knowledge base in policy and decision-making process that provides a strategic approach through development of comprehensive …show more content…
What are the essential services associated with each of these?
Essential Services that are associated with each of these would be:
1. Monitor health status
2. Diagnose and investigate
3. Inform, educate
4. Mobilize community partnership to address health problems
5. Develops policies and plans
6. Enforce laws and regulations
7. Link to provide needed health care services
8. Assure a competent health services workforce
9. Evaluate health services
10. Conduct research for new innovations
3. What agencies (federal, state, or local) are responsible for carrying out these core functions and essential services?
The agencies those are responsible for carrying out the core functions/essential services:
1. Federal-National tobacco public health surveillance, which smoking ban of commercial flights and Assurance-Federal grants for antismoking research.
2. State-Monitor state tobacco use; increase tobacco tax and funding for campaign through proposition 99.
3. Local Report on local tobacco use, county laws prohibiting smoking in bars and resources to help smokers quit in multiple languages.
References
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Environmental Health Services (EHS); Core Functions of Public Health and How They Relate to the 10 Essential Services;
The three core functions of public health are assessment, policy development, and assurance.
The assessment helps in monitoring a environmental and health status to help identify and solve, community environmental and health problems. It provides surveillance for diseases/injury by systematically collecting, monitors trends; analyzes the causes, and identifies the needs to make available information on healthy communities.
Policy development is to help inform, educate, and empower people about environment health issues, development ways to promote the use of a scientific knowledge base in policy and decision-making process that provides a strategic approach through development of comprehensive …show more content…
What are the essential services associated with each of these?
Essential Services that are associated with each of these would be:
1. Monitor health status
2. Diagnose and investigate
3. Inform, educate
4. Mobilize community partnership to address health problems
5. Develops policies and plans
6. Enforce laws and regulations
7. Link to provide needed health care services
8. Assure a competent health services workforce
9. Evaluate health services
10. Conduct research for new innovations
3. What agencies (federal, state, or local) are responsible for carrying out these core functions and essential services?
The agencies those are responsible for carrying out the core functions/essential services:
1. Federal-National tobacco public health surveillance, which smoking ban of commercial flights and Assurance-Federal grants for antismoking research.
2. State-Monitor state tobacco use; increase tobacco tax and funding for campaign through proposition 99.
3. Local Report on local tobacco use, county laws prohibiting smoking in bars and resources to help smokers quit in multiple languages.
References
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Environmental Health Services (EHS); Core Functions of Public Health and How They Relate to the 10 Essential Services;