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Describe three components of public and community health that differ from individual health.

How do the three levels of government (national, state, and local) work together in the interest of improving public and community health?

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The public sector works together with community groups, elected leaders and others that are in a prominent position of society in order to pool resources and help the community, whereas the individual has primarily concerns with self.

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Public officials concerned with public and community health address safety and issues for the good of the whole society. Laws and policies are designed and recreated as needs arise that are associated with the environment (environmental health), medical affairs and physical health (mutated microbes, illness and disease) challenges . Individual citizens may make ...

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