Question

the increase in complexity of public health demands increased responsibility of federal, state and local health departments. explain 4 emerging responsibilities of the state in public health practices.

Answer 1

INTRODUCTION :- Health of of the public is one of the most important aspect of our society.Moreover,the government play even more crucial role in providing with the condition which helps in the maintenance of health of public.As when there is any increase in complexity regarding the health of public,it even leads to the responsibility of government to provide all the measures through which it could be manged.

EXPLAIN EMERGING RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STATE IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICES

State or the government plays a very major role in the management of the health of public.Some of which are as follows :-

• IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WAYS OF MAINTAINING HEALTH :- It is one of the mot important criteria or responsibility of the state,that is to impart as much knowledge about requirement of leading a healthy life,and along with that the ways through which one could achieve it.State arrange various camps and programs,through which huge number of people could get idea about the importance of health,and measures of leading a healthy life.Apart from,this,state do pass the information about various diseases,that are prevailed,and how to protect oneself through it,by the use of such camps and programs.
• MONITORING HEALTH CHECK UPS :- Another responsibility of the state is to monitor health check up in various different places from time to time.It will be beneficial specially at those rural areas where the availability of doctors are very scarce,in such places,these health check ups will be very useful for the people of the place.So,state here in this situation arranges doctors team for such check ups.
• PROVIDING MEASURES TO DEAL WITH THE PREVAILING DISEASE :- One more responsibility of the state is to make sure that people are provided with measures as such medicine to fight against any prevailing disease.It is the responsibility of the state to take a look that every single place whether big or small should be provided with such measures.
• VACCINATION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN :- Another significant responsibility of the state is to arrange the arrange the vaccination programme for children at every single place of a state,so that no any child is left from having it.They should arrange it from tie to time every year.