PUBHLTH 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.5: Seattle City Council, United States Public Health Service, Infection
18 Oct 2016
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Roles of local and state public health agencies. Epidemic in 1793, philadelphia nearly shut the government down. The us public health service was established in 1798. Over the next 50 years, the states took lead in developing institutions based around the services like: sanitary inspections, communicable disease control, food sanitation, vital statistics, service for infants and children. Local agencies are understood by setting them on a spectrum between 2 models: 1. Home rule or local autonomy models: 2. At the local level, government bodies will often have names that include the words (cid:862)country(cid:863), (cid:862)city(cid:863), (cid:862)township(cid:863), (cid:862)town(cid:863), (cid:862)district(cid:863), etc: ex. The seattle city council and the los angeles county board of. Local agencies are usually given the authority and responsibility for at least one of the following: 1. Surveillance and initialize investigations of communicable diseases: 3. Us constitution does not mention public health: power is retained by states.
