Understanding the core functions and essential services of public health are extremely important for public health officials when promoting health in the community or trying to implement a policy.As a public health official, you will be expected to give a variety of presentations about your work or topics that currently affect your work in public health.For this assignment, imagine that you are the public health director for a local public health agency and you have been asked to give a presentation to a local board of county commissioners that is deciding whether to increase or decrease funding for your public health agency. It is your task to influence and educate the county commissioners regarding the importance of core public health services, recent policies and legislation that may affect public health services in your community, and your role as the health director in providing adequate public health protections and policy development.Please include at least the following information in your presentation:
Explain the core functions and essential services and how they impact the social determinants of health. Provide examples from your local community.
Identify a current public health policy or legislative action and how it has positively affected your community.
Provide an example of a public health policy in history, and how it has paved the way for a current public health policy that has positively affected your community.
Explain the role of public health officials in program and policy development, management, and implementation. Provide examples.
 
 
 
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When we talk about assets we may think of money, buildings, people, or supplies, but in healthcare, the asset that is growing in volume and importance, is data. In Rick Smolan’s book The Human Face of Big Data, two statements relate to our discussion this week and the course in general.
“Every two days, mankind creates as much information as it did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. The amount of information that an average person is exposed to in a day is the same as a person from the 15th century was exposed to in his lifetime (Smolan, 2012).”
After reading the above information from Smolan’s book, think about the amount of data you generate or interface with daily. Compile a list of all the data point interactions and trace where the information originates and eventually ends. For example, if you use your credit card, where does the transaction information go and how is it used. Are you concerned about the explosion of data and your personal information? Why or why not?
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