How to address a public health problem?

Monitor Health Status to Identify and Solve Community Health Problems

Diagnose community’s health status. Identify threats to health & assess needs. Collect, analyze, and publish information on access, utilization, costs, and outcomes of personal health services. Collect and analyze vital statistics and health status of higher risk groups. Integrate information systems with private providers and health benefit plans. Accurate diagnoses of the community’s health status need to ensure. Identification of threats to health and assessment of health service needs need to development.  Timely collection, analysis, and publication of information on access, utilization, costs, and outcomes of personal health services. Attention to the vital statistics and health status of specific-groups that are at higher risk than the total population. Collaboration to manage integrated information systems with private providers and health benefit plans.

Example: Ask students if they have ever seen a complete birth record. Public Health analyzes birth records to monitor general trends in newborn health. Idea: Obtain a birth record and share with the class. 

Diagnose and Investigate Health Problems and Health Hazards in the Community

Epidemiologically identify emerging health threats. Use modern laboratory technology to conduct rapid screening and high volume testing. Use active surveillance programs to epidemiologically address infectious diseases. Maintain technical capacities to undertake epidemiologic investigations of disease outbreaks and to examine patterns of chronic disease and injury. Epidemiologic identification of emerging health threats. Public health laboratory capability using modern technology to conduct rapid screening and high volume testing. Active infectious disease epidemiology programs. Technical capacity for epidemiologic investigation of disease outbreaks and patterns of chronic disease and injury.

Inform, Educate and Empower People about Health Issues

Market community health issues; communicate to targeted media. Provide access to health information resources at community levels. Collaborate with personal health care providers to reinforce health promotion messages and programs. Participate in joint health education programs; collaborate with schools, churches, and worksites.  Social marketing and targeted media public communication. Providing accessible health information resources at community levels. Active collaboration with personal health care providers to reinforce health promotion messages and programs. Joint health education programs with schools, churches, and worksites.

Mobilize Community Partnerships to Identify and Solve Health Problems

Undertake inclusive prevention, screening, rehabilitation, and support programs by convening and facilitating community groups and associations; include groups not typically considered health-related. Build community health coalitions, drawing upon the full range of potential human resources and material resources. Convening and facilitating community groups and associations, including those not typically considered to be health-related, in undertaking defined preventive, screening, rehabilitation, and support programs. Skilled coalition-building ability in order to draw upon the full range of potential human and material resources in the cause of community health.

Develop Policies and Plans That Support Individual and Community Health Efforts

Develop leadership at all levels of public health. Plan community-level and state-level health improvement in all jurisdictions. Develop and track health objectives to measure quality improvement. Collaborate with medical communities to create policies on prevention and treatment services. Develop codes, regulations, and legislation to guide the practice of public health. Leadership development at all levels of public health. Systematic community-level and state-level planning for health improvement in all jurisdictions. Development and tracking of measurable health objectives as a part of continuous quality improvement strategies. Joint evaluation with the medical health care system to define consistent policy regarding prevention and treatment services. Development of codes, regulations and legislation to guide the practice of public health.

Enforce Laws and Regulations That Protect Health and Ensure Safety

Enforce sanitary codes, especially in the food industry. Enforce clean air standards. Protect drinking water supplies. Follow up on hazards, preventable injuries, and exposure-related diseases identified in occupational and community settings. Monitor quality of medical services (e.g., laboratory, nursing homes, and home health care). Review new drug, biologic and medical device applications. Full enforcement of sanitary codes, especially in the food industry. Full protection of drinking water supplies. Enforcement of clean air standards. Timely follow-up of hazards, preventable injuries, and exposure-related diseases identified in occupational and community settings. Monitoring quality of medical services (e.g. laboratory, nursing homes, and home health care). And timely review of new drug, biologic, and medical device applications.

Link People to Needed Personal Health Services and Assure Health Care When Otherwise Unavailable

Assure clinical care for disadvantaged people. Link populations with services by ensuring culturally/linguistically appropriate materials/staff. Provide ongoing "care management“ and transportation services. Then target information to high-risk population groups. Provide technical assistance for worksite health promotion/disease prevention programs. Need to assuring effective entry for socially disadvantaged people into a coordinated system of clinical care. Culturally and linguistically appropriate materials and staff assure linkage to services for special population groups. Ongoing "care management“and transportation services should assure. Need to target health information to high-risk population groups. Technical assists for effective worksite health promotion/disease prevention programs. 

Assure a Competent Public Health and Personal Health Care Workforce

Provide education and training for personnel. License professionals and certify facilities; regular verification and inspection follow-ups. Continue quality improvement and life-long learning within all licensure/certification programs. Partner with professional training programs to assure community-relevant learning experiences. Assure continuing education in management and leadership for administrators and executives. Education and training for personnel to meet the needs for public and personal health service. Efficient processes for licensure of professionals and certification of facilities with regular verification and inspection follow-up. Adoption of continuous quality improvement and life-long learning are need within all licensure and certification programs. Active partnerships with professional training programs to assure community-relevant learning experiences for all students Continuing education in management and leadership development programs for those charged with administrative/executive roles.

Evaluate Effectiveness, Accessibility, and Quality of Personal and Population- Based Health Services

Evaluate health programs based on analysis of health status and service utilization data—assess program effectiveness and provide information necessary for allocating resources and reshaping programs. Ongoing evaluation of health programs based on analysis of health status and service utilization data, to assess program effectiveness and to provide information necessary for allocating resources and reshaping programs. 

Research for New Insights and Innovative Solutions to Health Problems

We should link with appropriate institutions of higher learning and research. Maintain internal capacity to mount timely epidemiologic and economic analyses. Conduct needed health services research. Continuous follow linkage with appropriate institutions of higher learning and research. Internal capacity rises up to mount timely epidemiologic and economic analyses. Conduct needed health services research.