Question

Community Health Evaluation

Pick one (1) item from each of the (3) topic areas that interest you the most. Use the topic heading as a subtitle in your paper:

TOPIC 1: The physical, social, and environmental aspects of community health.

1. List and explain at least three physical factors affecting community health.

2. Explain how social norms may be a factor affecting community health.

3. Explain how President Eisenhower’s heart attack in the 1950s was a major community health event.

4. Provide at least two community environmental health examples of progress stemming from the Health for All efforts.

5. Why does the United States see alcohol and other drug abuse in the 21st century as a community health concern?

6. Explain the framework of Healthy People 2020.

TOPIC 2: Global, national, state, and local community health structure and initiatives.

1. Describe the organization of the World Health Organization (WHO) and two of the six points in the World Health Organization’s agenda.

2. Provide four examples of the 22 core functions of the World Health Organization.

3. List at least two federal agencies other than the Department of Health and Human Services that contribute to the betterment of our nation’s health and explain how they do this.

4. List and provide the key responsibility for at least three operating divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services.

5. Provide at least four barriers to coordinated school health programs.

6. List three categories of nongovernmental health agencies.

TOPIC 3: Descriptive epidemiology, case rates, and their use.

1. Define epidemiology and explain why case rates are important to epidemiologists.

2. Explain the differences between incidence rates and prevalence rates.

3. Define morbidity reporting and vital statistics.

4. Explain why one would use an age-adjusted rate.

5. What questions are descriptive studies designed to answer

6. What are the three ways the objectives of the National Health Survey Act of 1956 are being fulfilled?

Answer 1

Topic1:

   1. List and explain at least three physical factors affecting community health.

   There are many physical factors influencing the community health in that 3 main factors

Safe water: A poor water supply impacts health by causing severe infections diarrhea and many deadly disease Hepatitis, Communities that are industrially developed are more likely be effected by numerous diseases due to toxic waste products from the industries that are released into water bodies and the atmosphere and some reports it may cause cancer, safe and quality of water is required to increase the community life span and healthy peoples

Industrial development: A clean environment is very vital to proper health of community which minimizes the occurrence and transmission of disease, unlike dirty and spoiled environment which easily leads to outbreak infections

Sanitation & drainage: proper sanitation is required for healthy community and that needs maintain neat and tidy to prevent infections and drainage facility is required leakage of drainage system into regular water it’s may lead to severe infections skin diseases

TOPIC 2: Global, national, state, and local community health structure and initiatives.

  Describe the organization of the World Health Organization (WHO) and two of the six points in the World Health Organization’s agenda.

• WHO (World health organization) A specialized agency of united nations. established in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva
• Health is state of complete physical and mental, social and Well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
• WHO serves as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health

Agenda of WHO:

Promoting development:

• WHO activities aimed at health development give priority to health outcomes in poor, disadvantaged or vulnerable groups
• Preventing and treating chronic diseases and neglected tropical diseases

Fostering health security:

• Shared vulnerability to health security threats demands collective action
• one of the greatest threats to international health security arise from the out breaks of emerging and epidemic- prone disease

TOPIC 3: Descriptive epidemiology, case rates, and their use

1. Define epidemiology and explain why case rates are important to epidemiologists.

• Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution and determents of health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability and mortality in population
• Epidemiologic studies are applied to the control health problems in population

Cases rate required in Epidemiologic study to find whether that disease increasing widely or controlling for treatment factors Ex; Tuberculosis diseases before medication died many peoples after started using medication many peoples in alive the difference between with and with medication graph is showing progress, cases rates is required further research of the condition.