Analyze the role of public health in providing health care.

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 Links to an external site. 
• 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?