PH 381 Federal and State Public Health
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Federal roles and responsibilities - ✔✔- ensure the health system functions
well
-facilitate communication, coordination, and collaboration across the
decentralized public health system
roles of the legislative branch of government in public health - ✔✔-creates
statutes that establish and empower executive agencies
-regulates various activities
-provides agencies authority to promulgate regulations and oversee
regulated activities
-appropriates money (CDC, Homeland Security in response to COVID-19
Pan)
roles of the executive branch of government in public health - ✔✔holds the
authority for implementing public health programs and enforcing health-
related standards, policies, and regulations through administrative agencies
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, roles of the judicial branch of government in public health - ✔✔-resolves
disputes between parties
-makes "case law" interpreting the constitution
-statutes and regulation while ruling that "attach" to statutes and regulations
that are interpreted and ruled upon (COVID vaccine mandates/ at home
quarantine)
federal agencies in public health: congresses role - ✔✔-establishes and
defines the roles and scope of federal agencies and often individual
programs within those agencies
-can modify, add, or take away any of these authorities at any time;
therefore, the roles, focus, and activities of federal agencies are fluid
federal agencies in public health: Secretary of Health and Human Services
- ✔✔a cabinet level position and reports directly to the President of the
Untied States
Key federal health agencies - ✔✔-department of health and human
services (HHS)
-centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)
- food and drug administration (FDA)
-Occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)
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Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Solved
Federal roles and responsibilities - ✔✔- ensure the health system functions
well
-facilitate communication, coordination, and collaboration across the
decentralized public health system
roles of the legislative branch of government in public health - ✔✔-creates
statutes that establish and empower executive agencies
-regulates various activities
-provides agencies authority to promulgate regulations and oversee
regulated activities
-appropriates money (CDC, Homeland Security in response to COVID-19
Pan)
roles of the executive branch of government in public health - ✔✔holds the
authority for implementing public health programs and enforcing health-
related standards, policies, and regulations through administrative agencies
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, roles of the judicial branch of government in public health - ✔✔-resolves
disputes between parties
-makes "case law" interpreting the constitution
-statutes and regulation while ruling that "attach" to statutes and regulations
that are interpreted and ruled upon (COVID vaccine mandates/ at home
quarantine)
federal agencies in public health: congresses role - ✔✔-establishes and
defines the roles and scope of federal agencies and often individual
programs within those agencies
-can modify, add, or take away any of these authorities at any time;
therefore, the roles, focus, and activities of federal agencies are fluid
federal agencies in public health: Secretary of Health and Human Services
- ✔✔a cabinet level position and reports directly to the President of the
Untied States
Key federal health agencies - ✔✔-department of health and human
services (HHS)
-centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)
- food and drug administration (FDA)
-Occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)
2
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