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Public Health Core Functions and 10 Essential Services for Equity

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Summary

Public health protects and improves the health of populations through coordinated work. This lesson introduces the three core functions—assessment, policy development, and assurance—and explains how these functions can help address health inequities.

The three core functions provide a broad framework for organizing public health work. They are connected: information gathered through assessment can guide policy development, and assurance helps put effective responses into practice and make them accessible.

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What is assessment?
Assessment is the collection, analysis, and evaluation of information about population health. It identifies needs, trends, disparities, risks, and community assets.
What is policy development?
Policy development uses evidence and community input to shape policies, plans, or laws that protect and promote health while considering local context.
What does assurance mean in public health?
Assurance means helping ensure that the services and resources needed to protect health are available, effective, and accessible to all.
How can assessment support health equity?
It can reveal which groups experience poorer outcomes, identify barriers and assets, and show where interventions or resources are needed.
Why should affected communities contribute to policy development?
Their knowledge helps ensure policies reflect local conditions and create realistic, useful responses to community needs and barriers.

Quiz questions

  1. Which activity aligns most directly with the sixth Essential Public Health Service, utilizing legal and regulatory actions?Answer: Implementing and enforcing regulations designed to protect health.
  2. Which activity best represents the seventh Essential Public Health Service?Answer: Reducing barriers so people can access needed services and care.
  3. What is a central aim of the eighth Essential Public Health Service?Answer: Building a skilled workforce that reflects and understands the communities it serves.
  4. Which activity is central to the ninth Essential Public Health Service?Answer: Evaluating programs and using findings to improve their quality and effectiveness.
  5. Which resources are part of the organizational infrastructure emphasized in the tenth Essential Public Health Service?Answer: Administrative systems, funding, technology, facilities, and personnel.

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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