Thinking to the future, identify three work-site settings in which you think health education specialists will practice to a greater degree than they currently do. Give adequate support for why you answered the way you did.
Thinking to the future, identify three work-site settings in which you think health education specialists will practice to a greater degree than they currently do. Give adequate support for why you answered the way you did.
In addition, public health in the United States in the early 1900s focused on improving sanitation, controlling infectious diseases,
assuring the safety of the food and water supply, and providing immunizations to children with a workforce composed mostly of physicians, nurses, and biological scientists (Brandt and Gardner, 2000; Garrett, 2000; Mullan, 2000).
Also, today’s public health challenges are much broader.
Additionally, healthy People 2010 lays out a broad agenda for public health efforts aimed at increasing health-related quality of life and eliminating health disparities (U.S. DHHS, 2000).
Koplan and Fleming (2000) outline 10 challenges for public health that include cleaning up the environment,
eliminating health disparities, wisely using new scientific knowledge and technology, attending to children’s physical and emotional development, and aging healthily.
Also, numerous authors have highlighted the importance of public health in addressing the effects of globalization
(Lee, 2000; McMichael and Beaglehole, 2000;
Barks-Ruggles, 2001; Kickbusch and Buse, 2001) and the impacts of an aging and increasingly diverse society
(Brownson and Kreuter, 1997; Butler, 1997; Koplan and Fleming, 2000; Turnock, 2001).
More so, these complex problems require multi-faceted public health actions based on an ecological approach to problem solving.
Also, such an approach requires a well-educated interdisciplinary cadre of public health professionals who focus on population health and understand the multiple determinants that affect health.
Lastly, a cadre of professionals who also understand that successful interventions require understanding not only of the effects of biology and behavior, but also the social, environmental, and economic contexts within which populations exist.