Daniel Levinson

2. Define public policy and discuss how Americans fare on key measures of childhood health and well-being policies for the elderly. Then explain how both affluence and poverty can negatively affect development.

The new public health is a contemporary application of a broad name of evidence-based

scientific, technological, and management systems implementing measures to improve the

health of individuals and populations. It’s main objectives are the political and practical

application of lessons learned from past successes and failures in disease control and the

promotion of preventive measures to combat existing, evolving and re-emerging health threats

and risks. We address present and anticipated health problems in a complex world with great

inequalities with specific targets which would help to achieve higher standards of health and a

more just and socially responsible distribution of resources. We present some examples of

achievement in public health and clinical medicine, particularly from the past half century,

that have resulted in improved disease control and increased longevity for populations. The

tools at our disposal today are much more effective than they were ten years ago. The new public

health is relevant to all countries, developing, transitional, or industrialized, all facing different

combinations of epidemiologic, demographic, economic and health systems challenges.

The fundamental policy of the NPH is based not only on responsibility and accountability

of national, regional, and local governments for the health and well-being of society, but also

involve the self-care by the individual and the community. It also involves the voluntary

organizational and private sectors, such as food, medical equipment, pharmaceutical and

vaccine manufactuers. Health promotion and medical care systems will need to address health

inequalities, access to services,and quality of care, and define