PUBH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eric Liu, Public Health, National Institutes Of Health
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We"re all better off when we"re all better off. - eric liu. Natural crises (earthquake causes people to live in tent cities) We have clean drinking water here, while some people don"t. We have clean eating environments, some people don"t. We have work and labor laws, some people don"t. Assessing circumstances, most rudimentary thing we can do in public health. Alerted to multiple cases that unusual things are happening (ie hiv) it took a lot of people to keep track of what was going on. Assurance: making sure people are receiving the care and services to make sure they are healthy (ie make sure drs. are licensed. Immunizations for those not covered by the private system. Communicable disease surveillance and initial investigation of outbreaks. Public health preparedness and response to disasters. Cdc, atsdr, nih, fda, hrsa, ahrq, samhsa, his, epa, dept. of.
