Department of Health and Environment

Mission Statement: "To create, promote and enhance health and vitality through innovation, collaboration and celebration."

The 10 Essential Public Health Services

(excerpted from "The Essential Services of Public Health" by James A. Harrell, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Edward L. Baker, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Essential Services Work Group)

1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.

2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.

3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.

5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

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

8. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce. 9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.

10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.