Analysis: The Three Health Care Delivery Systems

Three health care delivery systems in America are public, personal, and specialized such as behavioral health. These three are like a pyramid with the bottom being public health for its broadness and focus on the health of large populations. Personal health in the middle of the pyramid as its focus is on providing tertiary care to patients and finally, behavioral health at the top due to its focus being on individuals who require care for behavioral health problems only. All three care delivery systems objective is to improve and maintain good health of people.
The core focus of public health is disease prevention and health promotion of a population (Niles, 2015). Public health specialist hold duties in the physical, mental and environmental health of
Public health’s three core functions include assessment, policy development, and assurance (Niles, 2015). Under the public health assessment function, a public health professional’s duties include monitoring health, diagnosing health and investigating health (Core, 2015). They trace and track diseases and maintain health statistic of populations in order to create methods to prevent disease outbreaks. For example, flu vaccination is a measure created by public health specialists to