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What is Public Health ?
Public health is a system of public, private and voluntary agencies that are focused on the health of the population as a whole. Public health as a science and practice works toward protecting and improving the health of a community through: preventive medicine, injury prevention, health education, healthy behaviors promotion, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, monitoring of environmental hazards, assurance of accessibility to quality health services, and disaster response and recovery.
...learn more about careers in public health .view suggested reading

What are typical work activities for public health professionals?

The work of public health is identified by a set of Essential Services which describe fundamental activities of public health and provide a working definition for public health within local systems of public health.

• Monitor health status to identify community health problems
• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
• Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
• Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

What is the work setting for a public health professional?

Public health professionals work in a wide variety of settings including: state and federal government (health, human service, agriculture, natural resources, and laboratory services), local health departments and human service agencies, corrections and jail facilities, private organizations (hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, businesses), voluntary organizations (non-profit, foundation, religious), schools and university health settings, and academic and research institutions.

Career Training for Public Health Professions in Wisconsin

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Master of Public Health Programs - Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Outbreak at Watersedge*

An online discovery game to explore career roles in public health

Play this interactive discovery game to explore a variety of roles within the field of public health as a community responds to a disease outbreak and get a sampling of the different roles needed to protect the health of the public. You will have the opportunity to be an Epidemiologist, an Environmental Health Specialist, a Health Educator, a Microbiologist, a Public Health Nurse, a Public Health Information Officer and a Health Planner, just a few of many public health careers, as they respond and work through an investigation of disease outbreak.

*This game was developed by the Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health (MCLPH) funded in part by grant #5D20-HP00021-03-01 from the Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS, Public Health Training Center Program.

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Learn more about careers in public health....

Public Health: Careers Choices That Make A Difference by Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago , School of Public Health

________________________________________________ Offers basic information for those considering a career in public health. The text emphasizes key work aspects for different public health occupations and titles and provides an understanding of the tasks of public health jobs. The text is also useful for both graduate and undergraduate public health program courses and is useful for individuals looking for a career in the health sector.

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Interested to learn more about public health? .......
	Public Health: What It Is and How It Works Third Edition by Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago , School of Public Health
	________________________________________________ A popular text for students to learn about the complex modern U.S. public health system—what it is, what it does, how it works, and why it is important. Using a straightforward systems approach, this text will give students a solid grounding in the essential concepts of public health, and the relationship of public health to the health care delivery system as a whole.

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Last Updated May 4, 2006