Question

You have learned about the mission and vision of public health. Public Health boasts many successes over the past 100 years and faces challenges ahead with the growth of diversity, expansion of technology, and new challenges around improving the health of our nation.

1. Please identify a current or recent effort you see in Las Vegas, Nevada community to encourage public health. Describe the strategies being utilized and if your belief it is effective. Support your opinion with measurable data.

• For example, maybe the Las Vegas community has been encouraging healthy nutrition through farmer’s markets throughout neighborhoods. Do you see this as effective? Why or why not? Support your response with data.

Answer 1

Nevada provides meaningful changes in health care delivery and it has a triple aim on population health improvement for quality care. In the united states, the smoking-caused disease has the higest public health issues in their history. Due to tobacco use smoking is a leading preventable cause of disease among the community. Nevada state has a goal of improving the state's tobacco control. strategies implementation achieved tobacco-free Nevada. It had three implementation strategies to achieve the goal
-Eradicate the secondhand smoke and electronic smoking device emissions.
-Quitting of tobacco among adults
-Making awareness among young adults to reduce the use of tobacco.
Goals are effective it has objectives to promote policy, system, environmental changes at all levels. community partner communication in decisions are data-driven and guiding principles to make the intervention and strategies effective and evidence-based. stakeholders' efforts from all over the Nevada contribution made the plan success it innovate the tobacco-free Nevada community.
In 1998 there is 30.3% of smokers in Nevada, it reduced to 16.5% in 2016 due to this plan. It has a 21st place in the nation in smoking rates. Nevada lung cancer rate from 65.5 To 61.6 reduced. Deathrate for CVD from 477.4 to 428.4it is reduced.
Smoking is a major cause of CVD. 15% of high school students using an electronic smoking device and 43% of students never used the device. Marijuana usage is become legalized in Nevada in 2016 it reduced the smoke and emissions from marijuana. Nevada has 38th ranks in funding tobacco control program, it is the best buy in public health for a cost-effective strategy to reduce smoking rates among youth. CDC reported Nevada spends $30 million yearly for tobacco control, comprehensive policy for evidence-based interventions.
Regional health districts and leaders in community initiatives to strengthen clean indoor air policies to reduce the use and preventing initiation. It included multi-unit housing, smoke-free, outdoor spaces, parks, campus to target the promotion of cessation resources. Nevada's particular region has a higher tobacco use rate and health-related consequences. There are disparities people to use tobacco. Low-income African American race, age, LGBT community is in the leading place to use tobacco. Nevada activated health equity for these people through the sustainable program, funding, strategy, partnership, communication made Nevada tobacco-free land.