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Tiffany Byassee Week 1 HCS/457 11/27/2023 Week 1 Government Management of Health Issue The major public issue is health care I have chosen to write about the Substances abuse in Arizona and how bad it has become in the state. The agency is called ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. To define ATSDR The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ATSDR protects communities from harmful health effects related to exposure to natural and man-made hazardous substances. We do this by responding to environmental health emergencies; investigating emerging environmental health threats; conducting research on the health impacts of hazardous waste sites; and building capabilities of and providing actionable guidance to state and local health partners (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2023). The functions ATSDR is directed by congressional mandate to perform specific functions concerning the effect on public health of hazardous substances in the environment. These functions include public health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries, response to emergency releases of hazardous substances, applied research in support of public health assessments, information development and dissemination, and education and training concerning hazardous substances (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2023). In the CDC guidelines here is how the government deals to a response to the public “Life in a community experiencing long-term environmental contamination can be stressful for many reasons, including uncertainty, health and financial concerns, and feelings of powerlessness. Environmental contamination can cause chronically elevated psychological and social stress in some people and across families and communities. While it is normal for community members to feel stress in these situations, chronic or sustained stress can pose health risks on top of those related to environmental exposures. In addition, lower income and communities of color often face disproportionate effects from multiple social and environmental stressors. ATSDR has been working to better understand and develop resources to

Tiffany Byassee Week 1 HCS/457 11/27/2023 address the psychological and social effects associated with living in a community affected by long-term environmental contamination. In 2020, ATSDR developed and tested a new Community Stress Resource Center, released in 2021.The Resource Center helps public health professionals reduce community stress and build resilience through work with community members, community-based organizations, and clinicians facing environmental contamination. It contains a new 3 Keys Framework — Recognize, Prepare, and Partner — and over 40 diverse resources for achieving the framework’s objectives. Public health professionals can use the Resource Center to Learn the science about the connection between environmental contamination and stress-related health risks Take action by recognizing, preparing, and partnering to reduce community stress and build resilience as part of public health responses to environmental contamination Find resources to help achieve the objectives of the 3 Keys framework A self-guided introductory training for public health professionals on chronic stress and environmental contamination is also available on the Resource Center” (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2021). References: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (2021, December 29). https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/2020atsdrannualreport/whats-next.html Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (2023, July 14). https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/about/index.html Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (2023, November 17). https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/index.html#:~:text=The%20Agency%20for%20Toxic%20Substances,and %20man%2Dmade%20hazardous%20substances .

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