Question 1: Public Health Principles (a) What fundamental principle of public health are we potentially breaching by making the statement that “we accept the premise that climate change is due to human activity”? [100 words] (b) Is it reasonable to act on the premise? Why? Why not? [100 words] Assessment Task Two . Use no more than 200 words (about 3 to 4 short paragraphs) to complete this task. Explain, your response to the task Please be respectful of the stated word limits for the on-line tasks. Do not ignore the limit! More is not better. It is thoughtless and unprofessional to write a long stream of disorganised thoughts. The on-line post is a time to demonstrate excellent writing skills, to be succinct, structured and to provide a synthesis of the ideas. If you need to write a lot to think your answer through, please do so in a separate space not on the discussion forum Question 1: Public Health Principles and Achievements (a) Describe the core principles of public health? [50 words] Feel free to review previous MPH Units (interesting and famous names include: Acheson, Cochrane, Rose, Marmot, Last, the Ottawa Charter and of course the famous London water pump) (b) “Off the top of your head” what are the “ten great public health achievements of the 20th Century”? [50 words] For those who want to know what others think, search the CDC website MMWR April 1999 issue. On-line—Question 2: Public Health Implications of climate (a) Describe the ‘public health implications’ of climate change? [50 words] (b) What if any, are the differences between “public health implications” and “the principles of public health”?

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