Essential Services of Public Health --
It's What We Do!

• Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
• Inform, educate and empower people about health issues.
• Mobilize community partnerships and action 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 unsure safety.
• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
• Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility an quality of personal and population-based health services.
• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.