Unit 3 Public Health Seminar

Identifying and responding to health problems or threats is part of what essential service?

• Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.

• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community

• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

• Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems

Understanding the health issues at the state and community levels describes which essential service?

• Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.

• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.

Making sure people receive the medical care and attention they need supports which essential service?

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.

• Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.

• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

Developing legislation, codes, rules, regulations, ordinances and other sound health policies falls under which essential service?

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

• Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

Keeping people informed about health issues and healthy choices is a responsibility within which essential service?

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.

• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.

Maintaining a competent public health and medical workforce is important to which essential service

• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.

• Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.

• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

Supporting innovation and research, as well as, identifying ‘best practices’ in the public health field aligns with which essential service?

• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.

• Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.

• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

Protecting health and safety by utilizing ‘best practices’ to achieve compliance and enforce health laws and regulations comes under which essential service?

• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

• Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

Evaluating the quality and improving the effectiveness of public health programs is described as what essential service?

• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.

• Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.

• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.

A person's health and wellbeing is dependent on a good start, good future, good care and support. These social, economic, physical and environmental factors are known as:

• Health care

• Public Health

• Health promotion

• Determinants of health