Introduction to Health Services 

Professor Miguel Figueroa
Assignment #3

Review Questions- please answer all questions in complete sentences.  Make sure to add your name to the assignment

CHAPTER 6:  Public Health: Joint Public-Private Responsibility in an Era of New Threats

 1. What are the various levels of prevention?

 2. Discuss the historical evolution of health promotion and disease prevention in the United States.

 3. What are the lessons from history of public health development in the United States?

 4. Describe and discuss the structure of organized public health in the United States.

 5. Discuss the role of the private sector in health promotion and disease prevention in the United States.

 6. Discuss the role of managed care in health promotion and disease prevention in the United States.

 7. List some of the major public health threats that have recently emerged in the twenty-first century.

 8. Summarize the future of public health in the United States.