Public Health Practitioner Essay
The Public health practitioner, who I admire most is Fitzhugh Mullan. He is a Professor of Health Policy in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Co-Director of the George Washington University Health Workforce Institute. He served 23 years in the US Public Health Service starting as a National Health Service Corps physician, subsequently serving as director of the NHSC. Professor Mullan's work has concentrated on community health delivery, health workforce policy, and health professions education.
The reasons for choosing professor Mullan are, he suggests that in order to become a successful public health practitioner one should …show more content…
A public health professional need to acquire skill in communicating information to non-scientific audiences, such as the general population or the mass media. Public health professionals convey information with 2 purposes in mind that are to inform and to persuade. Informing means providing factual information with no intent of influencing a decision. Persuading refers to using information to help change opinions, attitudes, or behaviours and is probably the most common purpose for communication in public health practice.
Whereas professional working in public health agency are the individuals employed by local, regional or state, and national or federal health departments or government health agencies, who have attained their position in open competition or by contract through a public examination based on professional merit. They communicate public health information provided by surveillance and health information systems to policymakers, health care providers, and the administrative agencies involved in the control of public health problems, as part of their professional activity they gather data and transmit the information to their immediate superiors that is important for decision making. It's not their responsibility answer a journalist or private citizen, or to convey recommendations to persuade the population to modify certain kinds of
The reasons for choosing professor Mullan are, he suggests that in order to become a successful public health practitioner one should …show more content…
A public health professional need to acquire skill in communicating information to non-scientific audiences, such as the general population or the mass media. Public health professionals convey information with 2 purposes in mind that are to inform and to persuade. Informing means providing factual information with no intent of influencing a decision. Persuading refers to using information to help change opinions, attitudes, or behaviours and is probably the most common purpose for communication in public health practice.
Whereas professional working in public health agency are the individuals employed by local, regional or state, and national or federal health departments or government health agencies, who have attained their position in open competition or by contract through a public examination based on professional merit. They communicate public health information provided by surveillance and health information systems to policymakers, health care providers, and the administrative agencies involved in the control of public health problems, as part of their professional activity they gather data and transmit the information to their immediate superiors that is important for decision making. It's not their responsibility answer a journalist or private citizen, or to convey recommendations to persuade the population to modify certain kinds of