Vision:
Healthy
People in Healthy Communities
Mission:
Promote
Physical and Mental Health and Prevent Disease, Injury, and
Disability
Public Health
- Prevents epidemics and the spread of disease
- Protects against environmental hazards
- Prevents injuries
- Promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
- Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery
- Assures the quality and accessibility of health services
Essential Public Health Services
- Monitor health status to identify 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 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
Adopted: Fall 1994, Source:
Public Health Functions Steering Committee, Members (July 1995):
American Public Health Association·Association of Schools of
Public Health·Association of State and Territorial Health
Officials·Environmental Council of the States·National
Association of County and City Health Officials·National
Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors·National
Association of State Mental Health Program Directors·Public
Health Foundation·U.S. Public Health Service --Agency for
Health Care Policy and Research·Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention·Food and Drug Administration·Health Resources and
Services Administration·Indian Health Service·National
Institutes of Health·Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Health·Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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