Role of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in U.S. Federal Health Care Agencies

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Introduction
U.S. Federal Health Care Agencies play the role of controlling health hazards especially for
diseases which have newly emerged. Standards are created by the agencies for protection of
the public health system. This paper highlights the role of a specific U.S. Federal Health Care
Agency. Here the role of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been
discussed. Additionally the paper discusses how the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine (IOM) core metrics for health and health care progress and public
health management approaches are related to the initiative. Along with this the barriers for
the change implementation are also identified.
PART 1
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency that is
involved in conduction of health promotion with the aim of supporting prevention and
preparedness activities that helps to improve the public health in the United States (CDC
Works 24/7, 2018). The agency was developed in Atlanta, in the year 1946. This is managed
by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (HHS.gov, 2018). The CDC is
involved in partnership with the other national and state level organizations to monitor as
well as prevent situations related to outbreaks which includes bioterrorism. It also aims to
prevent infectious and chronic diseases including the workplace hazards, injuries and threats
of environmental health. CDC projects its focus majorly on five strategic areas which
includes elevation the amount of support that is provided to the local and state health
departments along with improvement of global health. Its objects also includes decrease of
the leading causes of death. Additionally the focus is on strengthening surveillance along
with reforming of health policies. Apart from these, the CDC plays multiple roles which
includes coordination and technical support though which it tends to meet the health security

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goals. The goals comprises of prevention, detection and responding to the investments in
global health (Johnson et al., 2014).
In the context of CDC, the health reforms were conducted in 2013, when president
Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This law was known as
PPACA (Arnett et al., 2014). This health reform legislation includes the development of the
new programs of prevention and aims to monitor the public health workforce. These include
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the HHS prevention and public health fund,
the national public health improvement initiative (NPHII) and lastly the national prevention
strategy (M, 2018).
The policies and regulations of CDC are governed by the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS). The HHS issue regulations are involved in implementation of laws
that develops policies and provides guidance for the industries and the local and state
governments. The page of the HHS Regulations covers the information on the strategies of
health information technology along with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) (Croft & Parish, 2013). Additionally there is a mention of other laws and
regulations. A recent vital hepatitis action plan has been proposed by CDC which will help to
battle the viral hepatitis in United States between the year 2017 and 2020. The strategies
included in the plan are given as four goals. The first goal is prevention of viral hepatitis
infections that are new. The second goal state reduction of deaths and improvement of health
of individuals suffering from viral hepatitis. The third goals mentions that there should be
reduction of hepatitis health disparities and the final goal reflects that there should
coordination and monitoring of the implementation of activities of viral hepatitis (Grol et al.,
2013)