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This 5 page paper is written in two parts, the first looks at the role of public health agencies and their general role and then looks at one agency the CDC discussing its particular role concerning public health. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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and reflects the potential diversity within which different public healthcare agencies may operate. There are many examples of public healthcare agencies, at a global level there is the World Healthcare
Organization (WHO) an agency of the United Nations operating at a multilateral level, at a national level there are agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
which is an agency under the US Department of Health and Human Services. To assess the roles of public healthcare agencies, and in particular the CDC, the consideration needs to
start by looking at what is meant by public health. Winslow (1920) may be seen as one of the first modern commentators to define the concept of public health
defining it as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting physical health and efficiency through organised community efforts for sanitation of the environment, the control of
community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene......". These are very board principles, and a general agreement. Acheson (1988) takes a similar approach with the prevention
of disease, prolonging of life and promoting of health, but simplifying the way it is achieved; through the organized efforts of society. Both Winslow and Acheson make the
link between society and health, and the role of social actions; a concept that was seen in many previous centuries, with the way that many outbreaks of contagious disease were
handled, such as Typhoid in London the Malaria in the US, where those dealing with the outbreaks realised the need for action on social level, looking for causes and
preventing spread to protect the population as well as treating the individual. It is Rothstein (2002) that associated public health with the role of the government arguing that government intervention
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