Question

Figure 6-1 History of pandemics. Cengage Learning 2013 els of Public Health Prevention CHOOSING A CAREER IN PUBLIC HEALTH Debbie is a student in a Master of Public Health (MPH) program. She knows that she wants to be involved in helping people live healthier lives but does not know whether she wants to focus on one specific area or on general disease prevention. Debbie has completed several papers on the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and believes that maternal and child health may be an interesting career to pursue, but she does not know what opportunities exist outside of WIC. She is also interested in how diseases spread and how prevalent chronic conditions are in certain populations, in epidemiology. Debbie has a nutrition undergraduate degree and teaches aerobics at the local YMCA, so she is also interested in health promotion. She enrolls a survey class designed to address the areas of public health and decides that a specialization in health promotion would be the best fit for her interests and skills. After graduation, Debbie goes to work for a local not-for-profit health insurer, where she designs health and wellness programs and coordinates so she is considering an MPH Vignette

Answer 1

Public health in U.S mainly focuses on promoting health at population level through investigating and intervening in the environmental,social and behavioiral factors in health and disease.

1.The U.S health care system mainly focuses on primary care i.e with prevention and health promotion rather than treatment of disease and recovery of illness / disease.

2.The classes that can be choosen in master degree program is like Health educator ,Community health worker, Social worker which can help Debbie to work as not for profit health insurer.

3.The health insurance plans which is beneficial for chronic conditions are Diabetes mellitus,Heart diseases,Kidney disorders .

4.Under the Affordable Care Acts health plans should focus on  preventive aspects which is available at no cost.Examples include- Safe pregnancy and motherhood, education on family planning methods, depression screening and treatment,postnatal care,care of newborn etc...

5.The stakeholders in reaching mothers in local market mainly includes the community health nurse,the spouses and the mothers ,with them the support of government through various programmes like Maternal and Child health programme,School health programme etc...