Research the core functions and 10 essential services of public health. Provide an example of how these essential services are applied in practice. Use the “Core Functions and 10 Essential Services Worksheet”
Core Functions and 10 Essential Services Worksheet
Complete this worksheet by describing an example of how each essential service is applied in practice. Include a link and citation for each practice
example.
Assessment:
Collecting and analyzing information about health
problems.
Core Function
Essential Service
Essential Service #1
Description
Practice Example
Monitor health status to
identify community health
problems.
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Essential Service #2
Policy Development:
Broad-based consultations with
stakeholders to weigh available
information, decide which
interventions are most appropriate,
and ensure that the public interest is
served by measures that are adopted.
Core Function
Diagnose and investigate
health problems and health
hazards in the community.
Essential Service
Description
Essential Service #3
Inform, educate, and empower
people about health issues.
Example
2
Essential Service #4
Mobilize community
partnerships to identify and
solve health problems.
Essential Service #5
Develop policies and plans that
support individual and
community health efforts.
Core Function
Essential Service
Description
Assurance:
Promoting and protecting public
interests through programs, events,
campaigns, regulations, and other
strategies, and making sure that
necessary services are provided to
reach agreed-upon goals.
Essential Service #6

Example
Enforce laws and regulations
that protect health and ensure
safety.
3
Essential Service #7
Link people to needed personal
health services and assure the
provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
Essential Service #8
Assure a competent public
health and personal health care
workforce.
Essential Service #9
Evaluate effectiveness,
accessibility, and quality of
personal and population-based
health services.
4
Essential Service
#10
Research for new insights and
innovative solutions to health
problems.
Adapted from:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014). The public health system and the 10 essential public health services. Retrieved from
https://www.cdc.gov/nphpsp/essentialservices.html
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Course Code
PUB-510
Class Code
PUB-510-O500
Criteria
% Scaling
Percentage
100.0%
Practical Application Examples
75.0%
Links
10.0%
Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes,
references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to
assignment and style)
10.0%
Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling,
punctuation, grammar, language use)
5.0%
Total Weightage
100%
Assignment Title
Core Functions and 10 Essential Services Worksheet
Unsatisfactory (0.00%)
Examples that summarized how the 10 essential services can
be applied in practice are not included.
Links to articles that provide support for the practical
application of each of the 10 essential services are not
included.
Sources for each practical example support article are not
documented.
Surface errors are pervasive enough that they impede
communication of meaning. Inappropriate word choice or
sentence construction is used.
Total Points
140.0
Less than Satisfactory (74.00%)
Examples that summarized how the 10 essential services can
be applied in practice are incomplete or incorrect.
Links to articles that provide support for the practical
application of each of the 10 essential services are incorrect.
Documentation of sources for each practical example support
article is inconsistent or incorrect, as appropriate to
assignment and style, with numerous formatting errors.
Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the
reader. Inconsistencies in language choice (register) or word
choice are present. Sentence structure is correct but not
varied.
Satisfactory (79.00%)
Examples that summarized how the 10 essential services can
be applied in practice are included but lack explanation and
relevant supporting details.
Links to articles that provide support for the practical
application of each of the 10 essential services are partially
complete.
Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and
style for each practical example support article, although
some formatting errors may be present.
Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but they are
not overly distracting to the reader. Correct and varied
sentence structure and audience-appropriate language are
employed.
Good (87.00%)
Examples that summarized how the 10 essential services can
be applied in practice are complete and include explanation
and relevant supporting details.
Links to articles that provide support for the practical
application of each of the 10 essential services are mostly
complete.
Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and
style for each practical example support article, and format is
mostly correct.
Prose is largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may
be present. The writer uses a variety of effective sentence
structures and figures of speech.
Excellent (100.00%)
Examples that summarized how the 10 essential services can
be applied in practice are extremely thorough and include
substantial explanation and relevant supporting details.
Links to articles that provide support for the practical
application of each of the 10 essential services are complete.
Sources are completely and correctly documented, as
appropriate to assignment and style for each practical
example support article, and format is free of error.
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic
English.
Comments
Points Earned

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