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Future Challenges for Public Health

Future Challenges for Public Health. Ch. 9. Health Systems in Other Countries. Learning Objectives. Apply lessons learned from public health successes and failures of past century to the next century

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Future Challenges for Public Health

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  1. Future Challenges for Public Health Ch. 9

  2. Health Systems in Other Countries

  3. Learning Objectives • Apply lessons learned from public health successes and failures of past century to the next century • Apply lessons learned from health systems in other countries to improving public health systems • Develop a public health agenda for the 21st century

  4. New faces for old enemies

  5. Unfinished agenda

  6. Behavioral Health

  7. Science and Social Values

  8. Limitations • Public resources • Powers of government • Single-sector approach • Accountability • Evidence • Communication • Ecological view • Focus

  9. The easy problems have already been solved

  10. To a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail

  11. A friend in need is a friend indeed

  12. You get what you pay for

  13. It’s not my job

  14. The Golden Rule and Enlightened Self Interest

  15. MPH Competencies (Public Health System) • Identify the main components and issues of the organization, financing and delivery of health services and public health systems in the US. • Discuss sentinel events in the history and development of the public health profession and their relevance for practice in the field. • Embrace a definition of public health that captures the unique characteristics of the field (e.g., population-focused, community-oriented, prevention-motivated and rooted in social justice) and how these contribute to professional practice. • Identify characteristics of a system. • Provide examples of feedback loops and “stocks and flows within a public health system. • Identify unintended consequences produced by changes made to a public health system. • Explain how systems models can be tested and validated. • Illustrate how changes in public health systems (including input, processes, and output) can be measured. • Assess strengths and weaknesses of applying the systems approach to public health problems. • Analyze the impact of global trends and interdependencies on public health related problems and systems.

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