PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Public Health Association, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Austin Maldanado
Professor Bic
Public Health 1
Lecture
Association, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, and others
• American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American Public Health
Association, and others
• Consumer groups Philanthropic Foundations
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Commonwealth Fund
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Discussion Question 1
• Choose a specific health problem.
How might federal, state, and local levels of government divide responsibility for addressing it?
• Example: Lung cancer etc…
Discussion Question 2
• Choose a federal public health agency and visit its Web site.
Identify an issue it is currently dealing with and describe reasons for current concern.
Discuss any controversies that may be involved in actions the agency may have taken or need to
take.
• www.epa.gov
Discussion Question 3
• Why is it important for nongovernmental organizations to be involved in public health
activities? • http://www.diabetes.org/
Discussion Question 4
• Find the Web site of one of the philanthropic foundations listed in slide 11 and visit the site to
learn more about the foundation’s activities.
• http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/hom e.aspx
Chapter 4
Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
Epidemiology
- The diagnostic discipline of public health
- A major part of public health’s assessment function
- Investigates causes of diseases
- Identifies trends in disease occurrence
- Evaluates effectiveness of medical and public health interventions
- An observational science
Epidemiology
- the TREND
- Epidemiologic studies: inverse correlation between serum antioxidant concentrations and
subsequent cancer risk (Finland study, Am J epidemiology, 1988, by Knekt et al.) - Mean serum
Vit. E lower and related to cholesterol levelin subjects who later developed cancer (N. Engl. J.
Med, 1984, by Wilett et al.)
