Core Functions of Public Health

Question 1

3 core functions

Answer 1

• Assessment
• Policy development
• Assurance

Question 2

Assessment

Answer 2

“Knowing what needs to be done”
- assess and monitor population health
- Systematically collect, analyze, and make available information on healthy communities
- investigate, diagnose, and address health hazards

*data collection, statistical and epidemiological analysis, dissemination of findings

Question 3

Policy Development

Answer 3

Promote the use of a scientific knowledge base in policy decision making

including use of legal and regulatory actions to garner our response

Question 4

Assurance

Answer 4

ensure provision of services to those in need

Question 5

Big “P” policy

Answer 5

Public policy
- policy established by the federal, state, and local levels of gov

i.e. Feds: FDA, masking, clean air standards (Feds)
i.e. state: public school requirements, driving age license health professionals

Question 6

Small “p” policy

Answer 6

Private policy
i.e. colleges, workplace, speed limits

Question 7

Assessment, Policy, or Assurance?

Conducting an investigation of an E. Coli outbreak in the community

Answer 7

Assessment

Question 8

Assessment, Policy, or Assurance?

Promoting enrollment in a federally subsidized health insurance program

Answer 8

Assurance

promoting an existing program = assurance

*if wording said “create” it would fall under policy (initiating a new program)

Question 9

Assessment, Policy, or Assurance?

Creating transportation systems that encourage healthy behaviors

Answer 9

Policy

Question 10

Assessment, Policy, or Assurance?

Create incentive system for acceptance of SNAP benefits at farmer’s markets

Answer 10

Policy Development

Question 11

Assessment, Policy, or Assurance?

Monitor wastewater to detect COVID

Answer 11

Assessment

Question 12

Assessment, Policy, or Assurance?

Provide patients free transportation

Answer 12

Assurance

(the transportation is already there, making it free makes it more accessible)

Question 13

Epidemiologists

Answer 13

responsible for how disease is distributed in populations; science of public health
- identify emergence of new diseases
- determine causal links btwn risk factors & disease

Question 14

Biostatistitian

Question 15

Social and Behavioral science

Answer 15

design
- educational campaigns
- study why people engage in healthy/unhealthy behaviors