Core Functions Of Public Health - 993 Words

1) Core functions of Public health are: †¢ Assessment: Monitoring the health needs of a community along with investigating and analyzing the health hazards. This helps in diagnosing the extent of a health issue and hence aids in the development of health interventions. Assessment helps in accumulating information on the status of a public health problem within a community using approaches such a statistics, epidemiologic studies etc. †¢ Policy Development: This is required to address the health needs of a community and develop policies that would eventually govern public health. This also helps in developing collaborations between the public and public health agencies. Policy development also helps in prioritizing the health needs by†¦show more content†¦it acts as an economic reward for individuals who can afford it. Social Justice emphasizes that everyone is entitled to minimal level of income, housing and healthcare. It sees community well-being more important than an individual. There is a strong drive towards a community responsibility to health services. It needs an active involvement of the government in ensuring that basic community needs are met. They are not necessarily antagonistic in nature. Both market justice and social justice emphasizes on the individual’s welfare but the philosophies used entail different methods to attain this goal. Both philosophies take time to be acknowledged and understood by the public. Both govern some of the basic human rights. Social justice governs the rights of the community to access basic healthcare and housing whereas market justice gives the freedom to an individual to do own or sell properties for personal gratification. Both govern freedom of choice and action. 3) Purpose of Healthy People initiatives is to promote health and prevent diseases envisioning healthy communities. It entails an elaborate set of aims that caters towards improving health within a community and eventually the nation. It emphasizes on involving the local businesses, governments and public organizations to help implement initiatives to improve health. Progress is monitored every decade according to which new plans and initiatives are