answers
___ is the organization that tracks public health activities of local health
departments Ans✓✓✓ NACCHO- The National Association of County
and City Health Officials
. Be able to recognize job titles under the Occupational category from
the chart Ans✓✓✓ Jobs under the nursing category are listed under the
Professional and Scientific occupation category of Axis 1, Public Health
Workforce Taxonomy version 2.0. Under this are Registered Nurses,
public health or community health nurse, clinical services registered
nurse, advanced practice nurse, and Licensed practical or vocational
nurse. All nurse practitioners, RNs, LPNs and LVNs are listed under
these categories.
Jobs under the category of epidemiology are located in the Professional
and Scientific Occupational category from the chart. Sanitation would
fall under the Professional and Scientific category. This comprises
sanitarian or inspector, engineer, and technician.
Jobs under PH nursing (category)
i. What title is under this?
b. Category under Epidemiology
c. Sanitation falls under- disease control
1. Pay attention to graphics with disease and disaster from PP
What would you say about it? 3 point and why Ans✓✓✓ Things are
happening very quickly, emergency preparedness
,The current public health emergency preparedness practice takes an "all
hazards approach". This means that instead of developing individual
plans for each type of disaster, plans are developed that have core
components that apply to any type of emergency
Recognizing the problem, gathering intelligence about scope of the
problem, mobilizing and coordinating first responders, surging the
medical capacity of health care system to care for the sick and injured
and mitigating the the problem by identifying and removing its source
Communicable diseases
Environmental threats: disasters: could be associated with climate
change, built environment concern, economic stability
10. PH 2.0 - PH 3.0 what was included in the jump between these two,
difference, what would fall under social determinants of health
Ans✓✓✓ - In the era of PH 3.0, the new and continuing challenges
encountered in PH 2.0 are being tackled through the enhanced and
broadened scope of public health practice that goes beyond traditional
health department functions, programs, and services and moves to more
fully engage the communities whose health is at stake.
11. climate change could have a role in increasing public health
challenges related to what? Ans✓✓✓ -increased extreme weather
events: injuries, deaths, poor mental health, disruption of healthcare
systems
- increased heat: heat related illness and death
- poorer air quality: increased asthma, COPD and other respiratory
diseases, increased cardio-vascular disease
- poorer water quality: waterborne diseases, dehydration
, - threatened food supply: food borne diseases, malnutrition
- changes in disease vector distribution: mosquito borne diseases and
other vector borne diseases
- impact on society: poor mental health, social disruption, forced
migration
12. public health approaches to curbing opioid epidemic would include?
Ans✓✓✓ conduct surveillance: Track patterns and trends on opioid use,
emergency room visits, hospitalizations, deaths and administration of
naloxone (opioid overdose antidote).
- build state, local, and tribal health department capacity: Funding and
technical support
- support providers health systems and payers: Promote use of CDC
Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain by conducting
provider education, helping implement quality improvement measures
informed by the guideline, working with private and public insurers and
pharmacy benefit plan managers
- empower consumers to make safe choices: educational campaigns on
appropriate uses of pain medication and the risks of opioid use
- partner with public safety: Educate first responders
13. top priorities of public health departments should include?
Ans✓✓✓ - chronic disease, tobacco, health equity, behavioral health,
access to care, injury prevention, maternal and child health,
communicable and infectious diseases, immunization, environmental
health