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¶ … public health infrastructure is a necessity for each and every nation. Public health infrastructure is a component of the larger and complex public health system (CDC, 2001,p.5).Public health infrastructure is described by Turnock (2000) as the nerve center of global public health. The objectives of the U.S. public health infrastructure encompasses the rural, urban and tribal population.In this paper, we address whether the workforce, communications and tracking systems, research and evaluation capabilities, planning and laboratory facilities are adequate. Also addressed are the most important needs in shaping and sustaining the infrastructure for dealing with the identified public health problem. The recommended changes are also indicated.
Workforce
A serious public health workforce shortage is currently affecting the global and U.S. public healthcare systems. The nation is facing a shortage of critical healthcare workers...
More that 64 million Americans live in areas suffering from primary care health professional shortage (HHS,2012).The United States has close to 50,000 few public health professionals than it did over twenty years ago. This problem is further compounded by the very fact that close to 23% of the current workforce (110,000 public health professionals) are bound to retire in 2012 (ASPH,2012).The workforce shortage is therefore at a point of crisis (Perlino,2006).
Communication and tracking systems
The level of funding of the public healthcare communication and tracking system is wanting. The government has continued to allocate inadequate funds for use in tracking of public health issues. The weakness in the U.S. public health infrastructure was clearly demonstrate sometime in 2001 in the wake of the bioterrorism threat in the form…
References
Assoociation of Schools of Public Health (2012). Confronting the Public Health Workforce Crisis.Available online at http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=1038
Center for Disease Control (2001). Public Health's Infrastructure -- A Status report. Available online at http://www.uic.edu/sph/prepare/courses/ph410/resources/phinfrastructure.pdf
Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public (2002).The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century. Institute Of Medicine
HHS (2012). Goal 5: Strengthen the Nation's Health and Human Service Infrastructure and Workforce. Available online at http://www.hhs.gov/secretary/about/goal5.html]
Perlino, CM (2006). The Public Health Workforce Shortage: Left Unchecked, Will We Be Protected?.American Public Health Association. http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/597828BF-9924-4B94-8821-135F665E9D45/0/PublicHealthWorkforceIssueBrief.pdf
Public Health Preparedness The concept of 'public health preparedness' (PHP) has been garnering recognition worldwide, given the global-scale threats which are constantly encountered by professional healthcare organizations, including bioterrorism, Ebola, the West Nile Virus, and influenza. Preparedness approaches have brought about improvements in the overall healthcare system, by enabling swifter responses to diverse kinds of hazards across the globe. A majority of PHP measures adopted in America are government-judged; this gives
Public Hospitals are facing imperative challenges offered by the fast growth of communication, as well as biomedical technology; the necessity for cost-control; as well as the spotlight on efficiency and competence; the augment of populations' strains for services and transformations in demographic and epidemiological factors (Counte, 1995; Walid, 2003; Henry, 1997; Patricia, 2001). The diverse strategies for restructuring should include devolution and centralization, changeover guidelines, redefinition of the purposes of hospitals
The infant mortality rate is of 8.97 deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate places Kuwait on the 160th position on the chart of the CIA. The adult prevalence rate of HIV / AIDS is of 0.1 per cent. In terms of economy, Kuwait is a relatively open, small and wealthy economy. It relies extensively on oil exports -- petroleum exports for instance account for 95 per cent of the
Lack of accountability, transparency and integrity, ineffectiveness, inefficiency and unresponsiveness to human development remain problematic (UNDP). Poverty remains endemic in most Gulf States with health care and opportunities for quality education poor or unavailable, degraded habitats including urban pollution and poor soil conditions from inappropriate farming practices. Social safety nets are also entirely inadequate and all form part of the nexus of poverty that is widely prevalent in Gulf countries.
IV. HOME-GENERATED SHARPS CONSOLIDATION POINT COMPLIANCE home-generated sharps consolidation point must comply with the requirements stated as follows: 1) All sharps waste shall be placed in sharps containers; 2) Sharps containers ready for disposal shall not be held more than seven (7) days without the written approval of the enforcement agency." (State of California Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management, 2007) V. RESPONSE of the SHARP'S CORPORATION According to the representative for the
Health Care Free SHOULD HEALTH CARE BE FREE? The following debate takes place between four individuals as follows: Dr. Barker, a public health sector physician with an experience of fifteen years; Ms. Gomez, a social activist working for improving opportunities and living conditions for immigrants to the United States; Mr. Walters, a journalist who writes on social and political issues in several newspapers and self-professed atheist; and Mr. Bucelli, a modern