Discuss your reaction to learning about the current health status in the United States.

Answer each question while using evidence from the following links and case study.

1)Discuss your reaction to learning about the current health status in the United States. What are your thoughts about decreasing life expectancy? What do you think some of the key underlying factors (determinants) are? What are your thoughts about health inequity? What do you think some of the key underlying factors (determinants) are? What role do you think public health has in addressing these issues?
2)Reflect on the WHO’s definition of good human health. Do you agree with the definition? If so, why? If not, what would you change?
3)Considering the WHO’s definition of health and applying what you have learned about measurement of health, discuss your thoughts on the County Health Rankings use of poor or fair health, poor physical health days, poor mental health days, and low birth weight rates as the indicators for quality of life? What are the advantages of using these measures? What are the disadvantages ?

Using the attached links….

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/index.htm?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fnchs%2Fhus.htm

https://health.gov/healthypeople

https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

https://www.americashealthrankings.org/

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