PUBLIC HEALTH IN AN ERA OF CHANGE ........ Pu

As a concept, public health represents a defined body of information that guides the organization and delivery of preventive care...Federal, state, and local governments are responsible for ensuring that an agreed upon set of services is provided in every community; in this it functions as an agency. (p.27)

How a state organizes its public health agencies can vary depending upon a variety of factors such as the state's public health history, the personalities of the state's organizers and administrators, the kinds, types and availability of federal grant programs, and so forth. However, as reported by Picket and Hanlon (1990), there are three basic service delivery models for public health agencies, one of which is the formation of a State Board of Health.

Typically, at the state level, the health board is appointed by the governor and approved by the state senate. Board members are non-salaried. Most state public health boards have policy and/or administrative functions and, very frequently, the authority to enforce public health laws through several processes. These processes include: (1) holding hearings on violations; (2) hearing appeals on health officer actions; and (3) issuing board orders for compliance with the law (Picket & Hanlon, 1990).

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in greater numbers. In addition, there are: increasing numbers of low-income Americans who cannot afford and do not get medical insurance; diminishing quality of health care; and a political pro-competition trend with respect to service delivery. The public health system is responding to these challenges with a number of actions designed to alleviate the health care system's burden by keeping people healthy and well. One response of the public health system that has been designed to deal with the increased burden these sociopolitical and demographic trends have placed upon the medical system has been the establishment of health promotion campaigns and programs in the workplace. According to Fries and associates (1993), health promotion in the workplace can reduce the incidence of both preventable disease and occupational accidents thereby saving employers health care costs and decreasing, by huge numbers, the users of the medical care system. Fries et al. also note that most of the job-based health promotion campaigns and programs currently being used focus upon improving employees' health habits and teaching them self-management skills for health-related factors, e.g. teaching employees how to reduce work stress, teaching f
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