PUBLIC HEALTH CORE FUNCTIONS & TEN ESSENTIAL SERVICES OPERATIONALIZED Scenario: The Washington State Health Department is using contact tracing to connect with people who are COVID-19 positive, to help them get medical care and to determine who they might have unknowingly exposed, so those individuals can be contacted as well

PUBLIC HEALTH CORE FUNCTIONS & TEN ESSENTIAL SERVICES OPERATIONALIZED

Scenario: The Washington State Health Department is using contact tracing to connect with people who are COVID-19 positive, to help them get medical care and to determine who they might have unknowingly exposed, so those individuals can be contacted as well.

• Identify and explain the main public health core function(s) that is/are addressed by the public health–related “event” described in scenario.
• Identify and describe two public health essential services that were (or could be) operationalized through the public health–related “event” described in the scenario.
• For each essential service you identified, describe a specific action that could be taken to operationalize the essential service, and explain what type of public health personnel are likely to have the responsibility for that action.
• Describe how teams with multiple types of personnel can work together to take action on this public health issue, supporting your ideas with at least two best practices in teamwork.

•             Be sure to cite the resources you used within your assignment using APA format for in-text citations and include a reference list at the end of your paper.

•             Make sure you follow APA format for all aspects of your paper.