2024 – Summarize the article s main points Identify 5 key points of this article You may want to

Summarize the article’s main points. Identify 5 key points of this article. You may want to come back to this question once you have answered the three questions below.

 

 

 

Describe the three (3) main changes in public health prompting public health to collaborate with the public sector. In other words, what are the BIG, transformative changes in the field of public health causing public health’s need to partner with business? (Note: DO NOT get the forces driving these changes confused with the changes the need to partner.)

 

 

 

 

What are the trends underscoring public health’s need to partner with the business sector? There are three (3) trends that highlight the need for public health to partner with the business sector. These 3 reasons are different from the “changes” identified in the answer to question two (2). Read extremely carefully!

Give three examples of public health-business partnerships that have been established in the past 15 years and discuss their purpose. The article mentions some and points you to others. DO NOT provide a vague, general statement identifying “sectors” of business and public health as partnerships! I want to know the name of the partnership, the entities involved in the partnerships, and the focus of the partnership’s specific goals.

 

 

 

 

The article review is to be written as a paper. DO NOT PROVIDE BULLETED ANSWERS! One source (not your text) should be given to support your response in addition to citing the assigned article and it should be on a reference page. Please remember to place the word count at the end of the document.

These are the instructions: no bulleted answers, 450-500 words. Here is the article

Public Health’s Inconvenient Truth: The
Need to Create Partnerships With the
Business Sector
EDITORIAL
Suggested citation for this article: Majestic E. Public
health’s inconvenient truth: the need to create partnerships
with the business sector. Prev Chronic Dis 2009;6(2):
A39. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2009/apr/08_0236.htm.
Accessed [date].
The corporate community and public health agencies
[must] initiate and enhance joint efforts to
strengthen health promotion and disease and injury
prevention programs for employees and their
communities.
— IOM Report on the Future of Public Health in
the 21st Century, 2003
Why should public health agencies work with companies
or trade associations that represent the business sector?
Why should public health entities with altruistic goals
work with companies that are primarily motivated by the
desire for profit? The differences in mission, perspectives,
and priorities create skepticism for public health officials
about the motives of the private sector and the benefits
of engaging in partnerships, even when the efforts might
have substantial public health benefits. Because we face
skyrocketing health care costs, a growing chronic disease
burden, and shrinking resources for public health programs
at local, state, and national levels, health professionals
may reluctantly collaborate on specific projects with the
business sector. These collaborations rarely establish the
types of partnerships that promote the mutual exchange
of ideas, resources, expertise, or access to specific populations,
nor do they result in political advocacy that would
benefit public health.
The interviews and articles in this theme issue of
Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) present a particular
point of view in favor of working with the business sector
that has not yet been fully embraced by the public health
profession. Public health professionals have 2 compelling
reasons to more actively and strategically seek partnerships
with the business sector. The first reason is using
the workplace to improve health. The second reason is
based on changes in our society and their potential impact
on public health partnerships.
Using the Workplace to Improve the Health
of Working Adults
Workplace health programs appeal to both the public
health community and the business sector. Perhaps the
most obvious reason is the opportunity to improve the
health of millions of workers and their families. Because
workers in America spend more than one-third of their day
on the job, employers are in a unique position to protect
their health and safety.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has conducted research with employers
to build the evidence needed to promote workplace health
programs. This collaborative work with such organizations
as the National Business Group on Health and
the National Business Coalition on Health has produced
guidelines and tool kits to help employers implement programs
(www.cdc.gov/business).
Unhealthy workers are a major concern for the private
sector. Escalating health care costs threaten the competitiveness
of American business, even to the point of
bankruptcy, and are a factor in the transfer of jobs overseas
where it is cheaper to produce goods and services (1).
The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the US Department of Health and Human Services,
the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors’ affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only
and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.
www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2009/apr/08_0236.htm • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
Elizabeth Majestic, MS, MPH
VOLUME 6: NO. 2
APRIL 2009
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2009/apr/08_0236.htm
The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the US Department of Health and Human Services,
the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors’ affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only
and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.
Rising health care costs have contributed to the decline of
American automakers. In 2007, General Motors, Ford, and
Chrysler spent nearly $100 billion on health care for active
workers, retirees, and their families, which added $1,500
to the cost of building each car. This clearly puts US automakers
at a disadvantage with other countries where the
government is responsible for workers’ health care.
Healthy workers are good for business: they miss less
work, are more productive, and have lower health care
costs. In Disease Prevention: A Job for Employers, Lichiello
and Harris note that more businesses are realizing that
they need the expertise, tools, and resources offered by public
health agencies to effectively promote worker health.
Employment-based health promotion offers employers,
insurers, and government an opportunity to
work together. . . . Recent research indicates that
employers sorely need accurate, evidence-based
information on health promotion activities from
reliable, objective sources. They specifically want
information on both the health impact and costeffectiveness
of health (2).
In fact, the private, for-profit sector is willing to pay
our profession for its expertise, making the opportunity
for partnership a win-win situation. Examples of these
types of partnerships are the American Cancer Society’s
consulting program called Workplace Solutions (3), and
CDC’s collaboration with Cargill, Inc, on a research project
that assessed worksite polices, programs, and practices.
This last project was funded by Cargill and is described by
Jason Lang and colleagues in this issue of PCD (4).
The Changing Landscape
Public health professionals operate in a continually
changing society. Our role includes anticipating these