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Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment

Decent Essays

Professor and class,

The following international, national, and local agencies are aimed at keeping the public safe while seeking optimum health and well-being for all citizens involved. They provide assessments, develop policies, assurance, meet unmet needs, and enable access to health care (McCowan, 2013). They hone communities’ capabilities to respond effectually to health issues by shielding and endorsing the health of the community and its residents (McKenzie & Pinger, 2016-b).

The WHO (World Health Organization) is an international agency who provides leadership, protocol, and guidelines, in terms of health, for the rest of the world. They make suggestions for research, then share the valued knowledge that is derived from it. In addition, to setting norms and standards, they also promote health education and monitor for disease control, as well as offering support to agencies that need it. For example, because of Poland and their history with tobacco, the WHO has an office with a program manager for tobacco control in Warsaw, Poland (WHO, 2016). The WHO also establishes …show more content…

Health care practitioners must look at behaviors, their forethought and motive to get an understanding so that the develop of health education (intervention and prevention) meets the needs of the target population as to get the best program and health outcomes (Thomas, Fine, & Ibrahim, 2004). For example, many cultures when gathering for holidays and family events, will talk, sing, dance, eat, drink, and smoke. It is so much of their culture, that it becomes a challenge to give up any one of the above-mentioned activities; because it is the group norm and because of peer pressure and expectations (ACOG,

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