Blog assignment #8

We have learned a lot of things; As i said on my blog page at the beginning of this semester, I just vaguely thought public health is about promoting the health of the public, the population. I feel like since the beginning of the semester, i have gotten to know the various branches of public health and their roles and health care/ 2010 health reform which recently was passed. Although all the lectures were very interesting, i found infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and obesity lectures very engaging. I think i am most interested in diseases like epidemiology part of public health, rather than politics.. I had vaguely known that many Americans suffer from, dying from chronic diseases, I did not expect it to be that problematic. When i was listening to obesity lecture, I was upset how some people in our society did not get to choose but to become obese. It was a big shock to me when i found out that 67% of American are obese. Before i took this course, i did not know how public health was so much related to politics. We learned in class that the core functions of public health are assessment, policy development and assurance. As much as policy development is one of the core functions of public health, it is so much related to politics and it has to be statigic..so i think this is the thing that was most unexpected..Since the beginning of this class, i think i got to learn more about public health and what part of public health im most interested in. i still want to major in public health (Epidemiology) But i know there are still many branches in epideology; i think i will need to see which part of epidology i want to study and contribute.