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.
