HEALTH IMPACTS

Health Department's Implementation Of Public Health's Core Funtions: An Assessment Of Health Impacts



Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article was to investigate the three core functions of public health i.e. assessment, assurance and policy development, were considerably and positively associated to improvements in health population status from 2005 to 2011 among US communities and to recommendations of the United State's Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report, "The Future of Public Health", and changes in their populations' health.

STUDY DESIGN & METHOD: The research design used is qualitative. Qualitative research is much more subjective than quantitative research and uses very different methods of collecting information which could be both primary and secondary. As already mentioned this study chooses the secondary method. The nature of this type of research is exploratory and open-ended. The method of investigation used, consists of a theoretical framework of secondary data by reviewing the current position of the photography practices as used in the courtroom presentations. Secondary research was conducted through a number of sources, including libraries & the Internet. A number of libraries were visited for gathering valuable data from textbooks & journals. The Internet was also a major tool in obtaining relevant information, leading to the search for a no. of articles in journals & newspapers from database. To prove the research hypothesis, a research was conducted through a three-step process: construction of an item pool, validation of the items, & pilot testing of the items. Also the data has been gathered through various sources out of which some are on line while some are on paper. Beside this Environmental Health and Protection data from Public Health Laboratories has been analyzed during the final result. Libraries including online databases were accessed to get the most relevant and updated literature. Some of the online databases that were used are: EBSCO, Emerald, Blackwell, etc. These data bases enable access to many libraries that contain plethora of information and recent knowledge about the concerned topic. Also the data is mostly peer-reviewed and validates. Also help was taken from various surveys and data gathering organizations which conduct research on a recurrent pattern on a variety of topics, for example Gallup and AC Nielsen.

RESULTS: This research paper will be presented in front of an investigation board carried by state health agencies in a two step process, that were adheres to the recommendations of IOM regarding the core functions of health of public by the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The oldest element of the federal government public health activities is the U.S. Public Health Service, which traces its origins to 1798. Under the administration of President John Adams, a network of hospitals was established for the care of merchant seamen. This loose network was organized in 1870 into a centrally managed and professional medical care entity based in Washington, D.C., under the supervision of what became the Surgeon General of the United States. In view of the fact that policies communicate messages regardless of intention on the part of policy-makers, it ...