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Unit1 Discussion Questions Introduction to Public Health 1. Discuss actions that governments have taken to ensure that people are safer and healthier today than people were 100 years ago. Some actions that the government have taken today to ensure that people are safer and healthier are things like the clean water act, and Obama care, and just the health standards today are much higher than they used to be. 2. Discuss the three core functions of public health. Compare these core functions with the functions of medical care. Include how the six disciplines of public health are used to accomplish the core functions. The three core functions of public health are assessment, policy development, and assurance. Medical care have diagnosis, treatment, planning and therapy. The 6 disciplines are epidemiology, statistics, biomedical sciences, environmental health science, social and behavioral sciences, and health policy and management. Epidemiology is the basic science of public health, and focuses on human populations usually starting with an outbreak of a disease in a community. It helps to control and study the infectious disease. It helps assure the public that we have a infectious disease under control. Statistics is collected health data on the population, so this helps with the assessment of diseases and can help study the cause of a disease. Biomedical sciences is important to understanding the control of new diseases and noninfectious diseases. Also, the control of infectious diseases was a major public health focus in the 19th and early 20th century, so it was a little bit policy development, and assessment. Enviromental health science is mostly policy development and assessment. It is assessing the quality of the water, air, and other stuff as well. It is extremely important in just public health, and especially since thousands of new chemicals enter the environment each year, this is key to helping the world survive! Social and behavioral science health behavior is that social environment affects people’s behaviors. So this one is also assessment, because it is things like major health threats are tobacco, poor diet, and physical inactivity. Health policy and management this area is mostly for examining the role of medical care in the public health, so it falls under each, but mostly policy development, because monitoring medical care in the United States will also be able to see the flaws that are in the medical system. 3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the philosophy of social justice. The advantages of social justice is that it aims to help give everyone fair treatment, and gives everyone environmental and economic benefits, no matter what you look like. Some social justice issues is just what it is supposed to do, such as characteristics including race, ages, gender, religion, and sexuality. They happen all of the world, and it is issues that include all of those issues. Racism is a great example and discrimination.

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4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the philosophy of market justice in relation to public health. Market justice is individual resources and choices determine the distribution of health care, with little to no sense of obligation or role for government. Private insurance and employer insurance are based on market justice, while Medicaid and medicare are social justice. Some advantages to market justice are the fact that people can pay for there own insurance. But this also becomes an issue, because some people also do not have enough money to pay for their own insurance, because it is too expensive, but make too much money to get government insurance. 5. Discuss rights and limits of government in advocating and/or enforcing moral behavior relative to public health. Provide data to support this. 6. Discuss how the history of the U.S. response to HIV/AIDS reflects the complex interface of science, politics, and ethics. 7. Discuss why One Health is important now. 8. Discuss the origin, overlap of the three major components, and the organizations involved in One Health. 9. Discuss how the interface of public health surveillance (epidemiology), and economics is exemplified by the Milwaukee cryptosporidium outbreak of 1993. 10. Discuss the roles of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in public health. 11. Discuss the ethical considerations of cost/benefit in public health. 12. Give an example of a measure that would benefit public health but that might be expensive to implement. Who would benefit? Who would pay the cost? 13. Describe how public health is organized and paid for in the U.S. How large is the funding compared to funding for medical care?

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