Assignment:
Definitions of Public Health Practice
Use your Introduction to Public Health text to answer the following questions:
1. What is the definition of public health? Remember to cite your source.
2. How do the three core functions of public health-assessment, policy development, and assurance-compare and contrast to the functions of health care?
3. What are the six disciplines of public health?
- How are these disciplines used to accomplish the core functions?
4. Based on your personal or professional experience, which one of the six disciplines interests you the most? Why?