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Public Health Course Analysis

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What is public health? "Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases." (What is Public Health?) From this definition, I get the general idea of what public health is. I believe that public health is essential for society. I hope from this course, I have a deeper understanding about it. The second thing I want to learn is about the functions of public health. In chapter one of Novick & Morrow Public Health Administration, it mentions that there are three core functions that public health agencies need to perform. "Core functions were denoted as assessment, assurance and policy development" (p 54). …show more content…

How do public health agencies perform it? It is interesting to know why these three functions are important in public health. Moreover, I want to know how these three functions relate to one another. The last thing I want to learn from this course is how public health system affects society. Public health systems are commonly defined as “all public, private, and voluntary entities that contribute to the delivery of essential public health services within a jurisdiction” (The Public Health). I want to know how important public health system is to society. What will happen to the society if public health system is broken? How the government and other private organization work together to create a good public health system for people? I think public health system is very complex so it must be hard to understand the whole concept. However, if we know and understand how public health system works, in the future, we can make it

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