Health Promotion or Disease Prevention: What's Your Role?

  1. Consider the role of the county public health department.
  2. You are employed as a public health nurse at the county public health department. Based on the results of the Community Health Improvement Process (CHIP), the agency identified childhood obesity as a concern and your supervisor asked you to work with representatives from other organizations in preventing childhood obesity.
  3. Develop your response.
  4. Formulate, identify and describes two strategic actions the public health department can take in preventing childhood obesity.