Which statement describes the key processes of the public health system?

• A. Diagnose, Treat, Prevent.
• B. Plan, Fund, Evaluate.
• C. Assess, Address, Assure.
• D. Collect, Report, Manage.

Answer: (C)

The main idea is recognizing the three interrelated activities that drive public health at the system level: assessing health status and needs, addressing those needs through policy and program development, and assuring that services are delivered effectively and with quality. Assess involves gathering and analyzing data to understand health conditions, trends, and disparities. Address means turning those insights into policies, plans, and programs to improve health and prevent disease. Assure covers ensuring that those policies and services are actually provided, accessible, and performed well, with a competent workforce and proper oversight. The other options describe more clinical care (diagnose, treat, prevent), broad governance tasks without the explicit assurance element, or focus on data collection and management rather than the full trio of public health processes. So, the statement that best captures the key public health system processes is Assess, Address, Assure.