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Teaching
Tools, Strategies, and Resources, continued
| Vignette
3: The Ten Essential Public Health Services |
Source:
Association of Schools 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
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Goal
Incorporate
relevant content from this module and other sources to revise
the Ten Essential Public Health
Services for today’s
multicultural environment in the United States.
Faculty
Guidance
 Exercise
1: Engage
students in group discussion and/or assign the following questions
for written reports:
- How
do the values and principles of cultural competence apply to
each of the Ten Essential Public Health Services?
- How does
the definition of linguistic competence apply to these?
- Which
models and frameworks for multicultural public health hold
promise for greatest efficacy for the ten stated services?
Exercise 2: Instruct students to form small groups and to reach
consensus on revising the Ten Essential Public Health Services
to infuse values and principles of cultural and linguistic competence.
Discuss the implications for leadership in multicultural health.
Pose the following questions to the students.
- What
were the strengths and challenges of the consensus process?
- Were
there cultural factors that made an impact on the consensus-building
process?
- Would this
be a feasible approach to use with communities? If not, provide
reasons why.
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