Three Levels Of Websites

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Website Review and Summary HCS/547 May 7, 2012 Website Review and Summary This essay will provide a review and a summary of the three levels of government health agency websites which are CDC (national), South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (state and local). Throughout the essay there will be a discussion on what public and community health is and how the information of the three government level agency’s information overlaps, the type of structure at each government level and the functions at each level, and how the levels of government works together. Public and Community Health Public Health is the knowledge of defending the health of communities through education, improving the quality of people’s…show more content…
The Food and Drug Administration which, would be on the national level discusses in the early twenty-first century, The United States started facing a health epidemic that possibly could be catastrophe to the health of comminutes nationwide (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2009). Americans are ingesting too much food and not exercising causing many American’s to be overweight or obese. The United States has123 million overweight or obese Americans with 15% being children (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2009). South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in agreement with the FDA that the citizens of the United States are becoming more and more obese and there needs to be a solution. All there levels of government have developed a strategy plan to combat obesity and function as a map to defeating the epidemic of obesity. One main goal is to get Americans up and moving more, eating less, and educating people on better eating habits (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, 2012). The three websites agree that being obese cause health problems to obese individuals. Diseases that shorten his or her lives such as Coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, Hypertension, and strokes just to name a few (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…show more content…
The three levels have overlapping information that backs up what the other site states. The three levels of national, state, and local are working together to implements plans on reducing the obesity rate in the United States. Reference Association of Schools of Public Health. (n.d.). What is Public Health? Retrieved from http://www.whatispublichealth.org/what/index.html Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). What are the consequences of overweight and obesity? Retrieve from http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes/index.html South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. (2012). Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. Retrieved from http://www.scdhec.gov/health/chcdp/obesity/data.htm U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (2009). Combating the Obesity Epidemic. Retrieved from

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