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Interprofessional Education: Values & Ethics Part 2
This module is part of a series introducing interprofessional education. This module centers on ethical decision-making, exploring how personal and professional values influence interprofessional collaboration. Learners will also learn tools to mitigate ethical tension in professional environments.
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#10): Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
he essential public health service of “building and maintaining strong organizational infrastructure” focuses on aligning resources, leadership, and accountability to support the achievement of organizational goals. The role of public health in this essential service includes ensuring that appropriate, needed resources are allocated for the public’s health, maintaining up-to-date information technology services that meet security […]
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#9): Improve and innovate through evaluation, research and quality improvement
The essential public health service of “improving and innovating public health functions” focuses on using and applying evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement in public health practice. This essential service includes building and fostering a quality culture in public health organizations and using research, evidence, and other types of information to inform decision-making. It also […]
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#8): Build a diverse and skilled workforce
The essential public health service focuses on two key areas. The first is maintaining workforce education and training, which includes providing education and training that encompasses a spectrum of public health competencies, building culturally competent public health leaders and workers, and cultivating active partnerships with academia and other professional training programs. The second key area […]
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#7): Enable access
Many people in the United States don’t get the necessary health care services. Some numerous gaps and barriers limit access to care. For example, many people travel long distances to receive primary care and behavioral health services because of provider shortages.
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#6): Utilize legal and regulatory actions
Essential Service 6 emphasizes the role of public health in enforcing and educating others about public health laws. This service includes ensuring that public health laws are applied equitably to protect the public’s health, conducting enforcement and education activities, and licensing and monitoring the quality of healthcare services. It also includes reviewing new drug and […]
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#5): Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws
Public health is critical in improving health outcomes for the entire population. This begins with strong, collaborative planning efforts. Good planning supports, among other things, the identification of specific priorities, recommendations for implementing strategies, and the coordination of resources. Planning processes can also help communities and leaders recognize the need for changes to policies and […]
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#4): Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships
There are two significant entities that public health engages in this essential service – community members and community partners. Public health works closely with community members to develop public health solutions for the best results. Community members have first-hand perspectives on how issues manifest where they live, work, and play, what and how assets can […]
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#3): Communicate effectively to inform and educate
Public health organizations provide critical health information on various topics. Topics could include healthy behaviors related to nutrition, seat belt use, or screening. Or could focus on health risks such as foodborne illness, air quality, or infectious diseases.
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10 Essential Public Health Services (#1): Assess and monitor population health
The Essential Public Health Service of Assessing and Monitoring focuses on collecting and using public health data to help make decisions. Public Health’s role and responsibility is to maintain a continuous and current understanding of health within a jurisdiction by collecting, monitoring, and analyzing data.
