Policy Agencies Flashcards
Who collaborates to produce, regulate, and disseminate important health information?
Public healthy policy agencies
Who monitors global health and assist countries in handling public health issues?
International agencies like WHO
How many operating divisions does the Department of Health and Human Services have that oversees Public Health?
11
What is the PA Department of Health?
State Health Agency
What is the Erie County Department of Health?
A local health department
What is World Health Organization?
An international agency that coordinates and acts on global public health issues
What WHO a specialized agency of?
United Nations
Established on April 7th, 1948
What are the 6 core functions of WHO?
- Provide leadership on global health matters
- Shape health research agenda and stimulate generation and dissemination of valuable knowledge
- Set norms and standards
- Articulate evidence-based policy options
- Provide technical support to countries
- Monitoring and assess health trends
What is the US government’s agency for protecting health of all Americans by providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves?
The Department of Health and Human Services
Who provides leadership for the Department of Health and Human Services?
Office of the Secretary
Who does the HHS work closely with?
State and local governments
What is provided at a local level by state or county agencies, or through private sector grantees, enabling the collection of national health and other data?
Many HHS-funded services
How many operating divisions are in HHS?
11
What are the 11 operating divisions of HHS?
- Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
- Administration on Aging (AoA)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Indian Health Service (IHS)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Who is responsible for promoting economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities?
Administration for Children and Families
What are 3 roles of the Administration for Children and Families?
- Empower families to increase their own economic independence and productivity
- Encourage communities to have positive impact on quality of life and development of children
- Plan, reform, integrate services to improve needed access- Strong commitment to working with vulnerable populations (people with developmental disabilities, refugees)
Who does the Administration for Children and Families partner with?
States, localities, tribal communities
Who is responsible for ensuring continuation of aging services at state, territory, local, and tribal levels?
The Administration on Aging
Whose mission is to develop comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective system of home and community-based services to help elderly individuals maintain health and independence in their homes and communities
Administration on Aging
Whose mission is to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans?
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
What are the 3 components of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?
- Safety and quality
- Effectivness
- Efficiency
What part of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality encompasses reducing risk of harm by promoting delivery of best possible healthcare?
Safety and quality
What part of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality encompasses reducing risk of harm by improving healthcare outcomes by encouraging use of evidence to make informed health care decisions?
Effectivness
What part of the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality encompasses transforming research into practice?
Efficiency
Who is responsible for regulating public health effect of hazardous substances in the environment?
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is under the jurisdiction of?
The CDC
Whose mission is to serve public through responsive public health actions to promote healthy and safe environments and prevent harmful exposures?
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
What are 7 roles of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry?
- Protect public from environmental hazards and exposures
- Promote healthy environments
- Advance science of environmental public health
- Support environmental public health practice
- Education of environmental risks and protective measures
- Promote environmental justice
- scientific and technical expertise
Who is responsible for conducting and supporting public health activities in the US?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Whose mission is collaborating to create expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health
The CDC
Through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new heath threats, what are 6 roles of the CDC?
- Monitor, detect, investigate health problems
- Conduct research to enhance/implement prevention
- Develop and advocate sound public health policies
- Promote healthy behaviors
- Foster safe and healthful environments
- Provide leadership and training
When the CDC was first created on July 1, 1946, what was it?
The communicable disease center which descended from Malaria Control in War Areas which focused on fighting malaria by killing mosquitoes
What is the CDC today?
The nation’s premier health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency
What 2 things does the CDC do?
- Conducts research and investigations
2. Works with states and other partners to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks
What are the 5 strategic areas that the CDC now focuses on?
- Support state and local health departments
- Improve global health
- Decrease leading causes of death
- Strengthen surveillance and epidemiology
- Reform health policies
Who is responsible for administering Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by providing information for health professionals, regional governments, and consumers?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Whose mission if to ensure effective, up-to-date heath care coverage and to promote quality care for beneficiaries?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
How will the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services accomplish their mission?
By continuing to transform and modernize America’s health care system
Who is responsible for protecting American people from unsafe or mislabeled food, drugs, and other medical products and to make sure consumers have access to accurate, science-based information about the products they need and rely on every day?
The Food and Drug Administraion
What else does the FDA do?
Guide and oversee development and availability of effective new medical products and new food products (like the FDA-approval of new products and drugs)
Whose mission is to protect consumers and enhance public health by maximizing compliance of FDA regulated products and minimizing risk associated with those products?
FDA
The FDA assures the safety, efficacy, and security of what 6 things?
- Drugs
- Biological products
- Medical devices
- Nation’s food supply
- Cosmetics
- Radioactive products
Who
- Helps speed innovations that make medications more effective, safer, and affordable
- Regulates manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products
- Ensures security of food supply?
FDA
What does the FDA have a large role in?
Anti-terrorism
Who is responsible for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, medically vulnerable?
Health Resources and Services Administration
Whose mission is to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, skilled health workforce and innovative programs?
Health Resources and Services Administration
What are the 4 goals of the Health Resources and Services Administration?
- Improve access to quality care and services
- Strengthen the health workforce
- Build healthy communities
- Improve health equity
Who is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives?
Indian Health Service
Whose mission is to raise physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to highest level?
Indian Health Service
Who is the principal federal health care provider and health advocate for Indian people, providing comprehensive health service delivery system for ~1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives?
Indian Health Service
Who is the nation’s medical research agency that makes important discoveries that improve health and save lives?
National Institutes of health
Whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about nature and behavior of living systems and application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce burdens of illness and disability?
National Institutes of health
What are 4 functions of the National Institute of Health?
- Sponsors research to improve health
- Develops and maintains resources to prevent disease
- Expands knowledge base in medical and associated sciences
- Promotes integrity, accountability, and responsibility in conduct of science
Who focuses on substance abuse and mental health services to people most in need?
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Whose mission is to reduce impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities?
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
What are the 8 strategic initiatives of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administraion?
- Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
- Trauma and Justice
- Military Families
- Recovery Support
- Health Reform
- Health Information Technology
- Data, Outcomes, and Quality
- Public Awareness and Support
Whose mission is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Who is OSHA part of?
The US Department of Labor
What does the OSH Act cover?
Employers and their employees either directly through federal OSHA or through OSHA-approved state programs
What are 8 things that employers must do under OSHA?
- Follow all relevant OSHA safety and health standards
- Find and correct safety and health hazards
- Inform employees about chemical hazards
- Notify OSHA of workplace fatality or hospitalized
- Provide PPE at no cost to workers
- Keep records of work-related injuries and illnesses
- Post OSHA citations, summary data, and the OSHA “Job Safety and Health - It’s The Law” poster
- Not discriminate or retaliate against any worker
