Public Health

Public Health functions in America

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Public Health” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Public Health” and its “Functions in America”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Public Health” and tries to gauge its effect on “Functions in America”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Public Health” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Public Health” on “Functions in America”.

Public Health

Introduction

This paper will cover the issues related to public health and the changes which are been brought in this sector. Public Health is a discipline, both a science and art that aims towards preventing disease and ailments present amongst individuals and at the same time working towards improving the quality of life of individuals and revive patients respectively. Improving the quality of individuals and maintaining a sound, healthy and active atmosphere has the sole objective of all governments and heads of authority. Looking back into old books of history, there have been several accounts where public health has been utilized as the last resort.

Structure and functionality of the public health system

Health care facilities must provide four types of mission: care, patient information, assessment and analysis of the activity, and finally public health mission. For complete, the hospital system is governed by two main administrative units: the Directorate of hospitalization and care organization and the regional agencies of hospitalization (Grint, 2000). The American hospital system is mixed, as it includes public and private institutions. As for public hospitals, their internal organization is set nationally, and the activity of most of their nonphysical employees is governed by the rules of the civil service.

Technology and public health

Before the Internet, health communication initiatives focused mostly on noncommercial public health intervention campaigns (such as encouraging women to obtain a mammogram), social marketing and health promotion (for example, discouraging illegal drug use), or commercial marketing (including direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising). The ubiquity of the Internet and information technology also may transform e-health and health communication's utility within public health research and routine clinical practice (Kazarian, 2008). For example, in some clinical settings, information technology is a tool for providers to retrieve patient information and current research findings and provides an advisory resource that helps physicians make difficult clinical decisions (Friedberg, 2000)

These same tools can be adopted for patient use, so health consumers are able to retrieve their medical records perhaps with direct links to health information on the Internet tailored to a person's medical needs and literacy level (Gabris, 2005). The high cost of medical care and treating chronic diseases (such as diabetes and arthritis) also are forcing a shift in health policy and medical economics toward early detection, self-management, and preventive care (Kazarian, 2008). The availability of identified, aggregate, interchangeable patient data on the Web significantly improves the body of individual as well as public health evidence. In addition, the combination of patient care use, providing tailored health information to consumers for public health ...