Tag Archives: public health systems

Creating Support Systems for Employees and Researchers Receiving Public Harassment

This entry is part 11 of 16 in the series Mar 2024

After Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Bloomberg School) faculty and staff reported receiving such harassment related to their public health work, the school established the FlagIt report and response system to support any individuals (faculty, staff or students) within the Bloomberg School community facing such harassment.

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Governmental Public Health and Its Centrality in the US Public Health System: An Overview

Building Pathways to Careers in Public Health
This entry is part 9 of 63 in the series Wide World of Public Health Systems

Relatively little of our national conversation on health is about public health, which is right in line with our spending on public health; less than 3% of that spending goes toward governmental public health, ie public spending through federal, state, and local agencies and services provided by them. This post is also available on the Region V Public Health Training

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A System Within a System Within a System: Unraveling the Complexities of Public Health in the US

This entry is part 7 of 63 in the series Wide World of Public Health Systems

The Complexity of Public Health Public health is a mess of complex networks of relationships among partners who are working toward shared goals and ideals for the public’s health. The “mess” cannot be overstated, given the wide variation across the nation regarding public health authorities, services delivered, and the multitude of partners involved in this system of systems. Each partner

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