Essential Public Health Services

• Monitor health status to identify community health problems

• Diagnose and investigage health problems and health hazards in the community

• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues

• Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems

• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable

• Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

Source: Public Health Functions Steering Committee

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