Question

major functions of Public Health Services​

Answer 1

The 10 Essential Public Health Services

The 10 Essential Public Health Services describe the public health activities that all communities should undertake:

• 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 ensure 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, and quality of personal and population-based health services

• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems