Title: (Optional) Analyze the role of public health in providing health care.
Course: Introduction to Health and Medical Sciences (14001-1) > Section: Examining Professionalism in the Healthcare Industry

Analysis should include

- the provision of health care to individuals, families, communities, populations, and subpopulations
- developing and carrying out the goals of Healthy People 2030
- the role of public health in addressing global health concerns
- the provision of certain health-related services to the indigent and homeless
- emergency care in the case of natural disasters, pandemics, terrorist acts, war, mass-casualty incidents, or similar widespread dangers
- mass immunization in the case of pandemics, bioterrorist acts, or other widespread biohazard risks
- the dissemination of information related to disaster planning and other issues of general interest.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the goals of public health?
- How are ethical issues in public health different from those in medicine?
- How does policy development relate to public health?
- How do terms such as epidemiology, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic relate to public health?
- What are the public health roles in home health and schools?
- How is telehealth technology used in public health?
- What is a target audience?
- What can public health professionals do to assist individuals to make healthy choices?
- What types of educational programs can public health professionals provide for communities, populations, and subpopulations?
- Why should public health take a global position on health care, obesity, HIV/AIDS, and tobacco?