Question

.1 List and explain the different means by which health promotion programs can be funded.

2. What is a budget? What are the major components of a budget?

3. Identify what you see as the biggest ethical concern of health promotion programming; explain your choice.

Answer 1

1.health promotion is traditionally financed from general government revenue or external sources, due to its public goods nature.

In addition to federal resources, public health agencies receive funding from state and local sources including General Fund allocations, designated tax levies, and fees and fines.

2.A budget is an estimation of revenue and expenses over a specified future period of time and is usually compiled and re-evaluated on a periodic basis.

The major components of a master budget include income and expenses, overhead and production costs, and the monthly, annual, average and projection totals.

3.Key ethical concerns in health promotion include

• issues related to infringing on people's privacy,
• interfering with their right to freedom of choice and autonomy for the sake of promoting the health of individuals or society as a whole.

Individuals have the right to seek other forms of health care that may not fall within the definitions and scope of conventional medicine.

The right to health contains freedoms. These freedomsinclude the right to be free from non-consensual medical treatment, such as medical experiments and research or forced sterilization, and to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.