RT Book, Section
A1 Quade, Thomas
A1 Love, Kailey
A1 Riley, William
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182685519
T1 Structure and Function of the Public Health System in the United States
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182685519
RD 2024/04/20
AB Public  health  is  defined  as  “the  efforts  organized  by  society  to  protect,  promote,  and  restore  the  people’s  health…directed  to  the  maintenance  and  improvement  of  the  health  of  all  the  people  through  collective  or  social  actions.”1  The  public  health  system  is  a  complex  network  of  organizations  working  together  collectively  to  assure  conditions  in  which  society  can  be  healthy.2,3  This  system  includes  a  wide  array  of  government  agencies,  private  organizations,  public  health  departments,  community  health  centers,  healthcare  systems,  advocacy  groups,  the  media,  and  social  service  agencies.  The  governmental  role  to  protect  the  public’s  health  is  represented  by  public  health  agencies  at  several  levels  of  responsibility:  federal,  tribal,  state,  territorial,  and  local.4