The Chicago Department Of Public Health

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals will be examined in this investigative research paper. Their mission according to their website, “is to protect and promote health and ensure access to medical preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.” Their organizational goals are to provide quality services. As well protect and promote health, develop and stimulate services by others. Lastly, in order to fulfill its mission utilize available resources in the most effective matter. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is led by an appointed structured leadership with years of experience. An important issue is the Affordable Care Act and it influence on Louisiana health care. The Honorable Governor Bobby Jindal is an outspoken opponent of Affordable Care Act and has composed is own version in Louisiana. The impact of ACA will be assessed. The Office of Public Health Center for Community and Preventive Health will be assessed on how it is organized to accomplish its statutory objectives.

With the growing ability of organizations to capture and analyze large batches of data, there are ever-increasing possibilities for the development of healthcare studies utilizing Big Data’s promise of advancement in data processing. These tools can benefit the field of healthcare by treating data as an asset to be managed, as well as providing new insights into genomic development of large populations that were previously not fathomable. The health care industry is one sector of the economy where data analysis presents great opportunities for improvement in the quality of services provided, but with these possibilities come great challenges in collecting, utilizing, and education the next generation of data stewards, and the NIH is sure to look to global models for data quality in carrying out their new directive.

According to recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 1.2 million individuals in the United States have HIV (about 14 percent of which are unaware of their infection and another 1.1 million have progressed to AIDS. Over the past decade, the number of HIV cases in the US has increased, however, the annual number of cases remains stable at about 50, 000 new cases per year. Within these estimates, certain groups tend to carry the burden of these disease, particularly the gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (MSM) and among race/ethnic groups, Blacks/African American males remain disproportionately affected. (CDC)

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) on April 20, 2015, working in partnership with the American Health Lawyers Association and the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, published Practical guidance for health care governing boards on compliance oversight. The guidance describes the OIG’s expectations of the compliance oversight and the roles governing boards should play in a healthcare organization.

There are a lot of governmental bodies that regulate social and economic businesses and have a lot impact on agencies with their rules, laws, and regulations. One of the given industries that impacts or societal and health in a lot of ways would be the The Centers for Disease Control. This regulatory agency would fall under Public Health and The Occupational safety and Health Department.

The National Institute of Health (2014) listed the most common form of familial hyperinsulinism to be an autosomal recessive genetic defect that is common among the Ashkenazi Jewish population. This condition affects 1 in 66 carriers who are Ashkenazi Jews since they have reported consanguineous marriages (NIH, 2014). Among Ashkenazi Jews, two single ABCC8 mutations account for 90 percent of cases of familiar hyperinsulinism (Mazor-Aronovitch, et al, 2007). The incidence of FHI in individuals of northern European descendants is approximately 1:30,000 live births. The incidence is increased in genetically isolated populations with a high prevalence of consanguinity (UpToDate.com).

Healthcare is one of the significant functions of every state government. In the state of Iowa, one of the organizations that play a major role in ensuring Iowan’s community health is the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH). Does IDPH effectively manage to ensure quality health services in Iowa considering the ever growing population and the demographic differences exhibited by the state’s inhabitants? If it does, how does it do it? This study is a report on Iowa Department of Public Health. The report intends to answer the questions posed above and to provide comprehensive information about the organization.

It has its headquarters in Little Rock with 94 local health units distributed in the 75 counties of the state (Arkansas Department of Health, 2015). Major facilities include Center for Health Advancement with branches of Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, Women, Oral Health, Chronic, Disease, and Infants and Children (WIC). Besides, it has centers for health protection, public health, public health laboratories for investigation of water samples, samples for rabies, and human samples for disease. Support resources at the ADH include a wide range of programs such as human resource (5,000 employees), finance, information technology, legal, community support, health communication and marketing, policies and procedures, tobacco prevention and cessation, and community healthcare facilities. Still, the department shares some resources boated by IDPH. In particular, it has a dedicated workforce for human resource, finance resource, legal resource, and information technology resource.

The Chicago Department of Public Health exemplifies a public health department that is extremely proactive and supportive of initiatives to eradicate or significantly decrease the incidence of HIV in the City of Chicago. To this end, the Chicago Department of Health monitors the incidences of new cases in the city, while constantly monitoring the progression or regression of the conditions of patients already affected by the HIV virus. Statistical data is collected through the avenue set up for health care providers to report all pertinent information about newly diagnosed HIV or an unusual turn of events with old HIV cases. furthermore, the Chicago Department of Public health ( CDPH) through its monitoring programs is able to identify threats, determine which health care services are need in a community and the target population. For example, in the month of November, their target segments were gays and bisexual African American men because both groups were disproportionately impacted by the HIV outbreak during the previous summer. Impressively, the CDPH has links to addresses where HIV testing is done free of charge and reports are confidential. Most importantly, the result is shared with the department to help the department further enhance the efficiency of the HIV task force of the CDPH. Furthermore, the CDPH is very efficient in the dissemination of information either through links on their website, advertisement, or pamphlets to name a few. Moreover,

The leaders in the National Institute of Health play an important role is shaping the agencies different research plans and activities. The NIH is made up of twenty different centers and institutes each focusing on a different body system or disease of the body requiring their own research agenda.

The public health system is based on ten essentials the first of those essentials is to Monitor health status in order to identify and solve community health problems. This is the primary role of the CDC. The CDC provides the backbone to the public health system by supporting public health agencies. This is accomplished through several different programs such as the CDC WONDER. CDC WONDER or Wide-ranging On-line Data for Epidemiologic Research is a detailed system to assist public health professionals by providing them with action-oriented information. Information can be accessed quickly and easily to help design and implement prevention strategies and allocate resources (Friede & Ory, 1993). CDC WONDER simplifies data management obtained through surveillance systems giving access to state and local health

Imagine living in a time where the life expectancy is 30 years old and the infant mortality rates are 95% lower than today’s times. By understanding what public health is and the important role it plays in society, then can we promote a better quality of life. The history of Public Health over time shows vast progression and evolution throughout the centuries and has had a tremendous impact on the health of the communities. We use the history of events that took place in Chicago between 1834 and 2014 as an example of the evolution of public health. The events that took place in Chicago tell a story of how public health activities and responses have changed over the past 180 years.

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention also known as the CDC is the leading federal agency that provides information in all areas of health and safety. The CDC has been at the forefront in numerous areas of medical research and has now taking on the role of providing information about Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder commonly known as ADHD. There are a variety of neurodevelopment disorders, and ADHD is considered to be the most common even though it was first documented in 1902. The CDC website has provided information that effectively utilizes the three rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos to inform and educate the public about a common disorder that affects children and adults.

A Center for Disease Control Director (CDC) role is well defined. Thus far, the director of the CDC primary purpose is to nurture the public through an epidemic or a pandemic. It is essential for the director of the CDC to contribute to communication as much as possible. Furthermore, resources are vital when health threats are imminent and demonstrator threats. An essential point as a director of the CDC is national and state security. Nevertheless, a CDC director uses innovative security to control and confront all possible threats or attacks.

Established by Congress as an independent, nonprofit organization, the CDC Foundation connects the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with private-sector organizations and individuals to build public health programs that make our world healthier and safer. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has provided $450 million to support CDC's work, launched more than 750 programs around the world and built a network of individuals and organizations committed to supporting CDC and public health.