Public Health Law And Policy : Assignment

Public Health Law And Policy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
1. Demonstrating specialized knowledge of public health law and policy in terms of function,
importance with relevance to public health practises.................................................................3
2. Evaluating the applicability and practical effects of public health legislative schemes tp
particular situations in public health practises............................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Public health law is the study of legal power and duties of the state that are being
combined with its partners which are healthcare businesses to ensure the conditions for the
people to be healthy. The present report is based on a case study which reflects the learning and
information that as healthcare professional can extend to their existing knowledge and skills. The
report will also demonstrate how it helps in their future practice and enhancing their career
requirement.
1. Demonstrating specialized knowledge of public health law and policy in terms of function,
importance with relevance to public health practises.
As per accessing the public health laws and policy, being a health care professional, it is
important to understand the competencies in the public health sectors. It has assisted in
identifying the aspects of different areas of public health practises in Australia. The module
helped in providing deeper awareness of the public health care. It is clear that a study of the legal
power and duties of the state in collaboration with a motive to be ensure that local public are
recognized as healthy and safe (Detels & et.al., 2011). Further, such unit of HSC has increased
my understanding about different indicators and population health data. It has also provided
deeper insight to me different measures for population health indicators. It will assist my
functioning of calculating and interpreting occurrence and association between exposure and
diseases. This unit will help in giving core guidance on basic education and training in the area
of public health. It has helped in better communicating to population health information.
Study elements regarding HSC has increased my awareness about generating and
interpreting descriptive statistics. This in turn will will help in summarising and displaying
epidemiologic data prominently. It has increased my knowledge regarding different determinants
and causes of significant population health problem (Gostin and Sridhar, 2014). The unit has
further helped in establishing my knowledge regarding the different features of various types
surveillance system and different screening programme. It has also presented various
components of a surveillance system which exhibits how and when to use such components
(Foundation Competencies for Public Health Graduates and Curriculum Framework, 2018). It
has further helped me in developing knowledge about how to prevent and control various types