Political Science-Public Administration

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Federal agencies in government plays vital role in managing all the strategies of the agency . Each agency has his duties which are supposed to be carried out which helps in governing the roles of agency . In federal state one major agency is the department of health and human services (HHS . This department has quite a number of branches which are divided and different roles allocated to them so that duties of health department can be dealt

with more precisely . Management of government resources to be used in various agencies is carried out most appropriately when they have a specific agency that they operate (GAO 1999 . In department of health , various tasks such as conducting survey for disease prevalence in specific areas , funding , carrying out of research and funding other activities that are health related that help the country in reducing the risk of diseases that can bring the productivity of the country down

Department of Health and Human Services deals with quite a number of issues which are related to health and their main duty is to allocate government fund which has been allocated by the federal state to its branches so that the money can be used to raise health status of the country (Wagner , 2002 . Apart from the funds that the agency gets from the government , it can obtain funds from donations from some internationals or private donors who would wish to fund different projects that are initiated by the department

The agency is political oriented since they are ended by secretaries who are elected on basis of the political status of the government . The agency is usually supported by those who are in medical field . It is anticipated that the future of the agency will be much better through the efforts that are employed in operations of the agency . With time some of these braches of the agencies will grow to be dependent agencies

HHS main duty is to ensure that the health of all Americans is protected so that they can live disease free life and also they facilitate human services to the citizens especially disabled , poor and old who in most cases are unable to take care of themselves (Elias 2005 . There are so many programmes held by this department which are around 300 programmes and they usually cover so many activities of the department in helping the citizens some of the duties undertaken by this department according to HHS press office in 2008 are

Research based on health and social sciences

They aim at preventing disease occurrence by carrying out immunization programmes and educating individuals on healthy ways of living which will prevent occurrence of disease since its better to prevent disease from occurring than curing it after it has occurred which risks ones health and its also expensive

They carry out research and survey to assure the citizens that food taken or sold to them and drugs are safe for consumption through...