Assignment

Answer the following questions concisely (no more than half a page per question)

1. What is the National Prevention Strategy and who is responsible for it?

2. What are the differences among community health, population health, and global health?

3. Which federal department in the United States is the government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially to those who are least able to help themselves? What major services does this department provide?

4. How do state and local health departments interface?

5. What significance do you think Healthy People 2020 will have in the years ahead?