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Essay Instructions: Please answer each question is essay form. Please limit each question to a one-page, double-spaced answer per question (not including references) thanks.
1. List at least five key developments that have contributed to the “philosophic renaissance” of public health practice during the past 20 years.

2. You are a health ethicist. Using concepts from the Public Health Code of Ethics explain what is unethical about the Tuskegee study http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/ and releasing the names from a public health reporting system of people who are HIV positive or another public health issue.

3. What are the three main types of law, and which is the most important for a public health agency?

4. How does Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act apply to public health officials?

5. Assume you are working in a state health department in which none of the following conditions is on the state list of reportable diseases. For each condition, what sources of data might be available if you wished to conduct surveillance?
1. E. coli
2. Spinal cord injury
3. Lung cancer among nonsmokers

6. Describe the importance of an asset approach to health assessment and program planning. Give particular attention to how asset mapping can be used in conjunction with more traditional public health assessment models.

Essay Instructions: Please answer the following two questions in a short and to the point fashion.

1.Identify a public health issue of importance in Redwood City, CA. Create a list of organizations that would make up a coalition to help their local health department tackle an issue.

2.Identify the characteristics of an ideal public health manager.

Essay Instructions: In the past two decades, public health professionals have launched a variety of
interventions designed to improve the health of low-income urban populations. According to
your text, public health strategies are defined as organized activities designed to achieve specified health outcomes based on an analysis of causal factors and informed by a theory of health determinants.
Explain why the primary-care setting offers important opportunities for health promotion to low-income urban populations. Then, describe the attempts that have been made to increase low-income urban population access to quality primary care. (A 2page response is required.)

Public Health Resources
Examine the respective Web sites for the organizations listed below (or similar government Web sites) and become familiar with their general contents. Which three (3) of
these Web sites are most useful for providing information and insights related to the question, What is public health? Explain your choices. Summarize your definition of public health and provide the rationale for your definition. Could you suggest other Web sites to add to this list? (A 2-page response is required.)

American Public Health Association - http://www.apha.org/
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials http://www.astho.org/
National Association of County and City Health Officials http://www.naccho.org/
Public Health Foundation http://www.phf.org/
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/
State health departments, available through ASTHO http://www.astho.org/
Local health departments, available through NACCHO http://www.naccho.org/
Association of Schools of Public Health, available through ASPH http://www.asph.org/

Essay Instructions: Studies have found common features among high-performing health departments that manage diabetes. These departments may include receiving external funding for programming, having a self-management education program that is recognized by the American Diabetes Association, and having partnership opportunities. Using your local health department as the basis of study, discuss the diabetes programming and services it utilizes. In your opinion, should more be done to battle diabetes in your area or do you feel that the services provided are sufficient? Explain why you feel this way.