Health Campaign Part I

Health Campaign Part I

HCS 535

Instructor: Regina Pointer 2013

Health Campaign Part I

Health campaign focus on decreasing the amount of people with chronic illness across the nation population. Public health national goal is to decrease the chronic illness by integrating patient centered care model. Using the patient centered care model the patient can be more involve and part of their own treatment. By having the patient engage in their own health and able to take medical decision will improve public health. Diabetes is one major chronic illness that keep increasing throughout the years across the country affecting individual and communities. Diabetes is a chronic illness that is characterized by the elevation of glucose on the blood stream. According to Healthy People 2020 (November 13, 2013) “DM occurs when the body cannot produce or respond appropriately to insulin. Insulin is a hormone that the body needs to absorb and use glucose (sugar) as fuel for the body’s cells. Without a properly functioning insulin signaling system, blood glucose levels become elevated and other metabolic abnormalities occur, leading to the development of serious, disabling complications” (para. 2). This chronic illness can have multiple complication that affect the individual, communities, and the cost of health care.

Federal, state, and local agencies are working in collaboration to address and managing the increment diabetes on individual and population. Many federal, states, and local agencies share the same task such as disease surveillance, creation of policy, and facilitate access to services. To have a better understanding of all the agencies involvement first, the activity start with the people at the community levels which the population will collaborate with the local public health. However, if the disease spread out of the community the federal and states agencies will interact to control the spreading of the disease. The public health goals is to reduce the...