| About Us | |
| Longer lives, better health, safer environments | |
| Vision | |
| Healthy people in healthy communities. Public health touches every person, every day, and helps Oregon communities create healthy environments so those who live there can be well. Public health is based on science and focuses on population groups rather than on the individual. It emphasizes preventing illness and injury rather than treating a medical condition that has already occurred. Many public health activities are invisible to the public but they quickly become apparent when there are wide-scale health threats, such as a communicable disease outbreak, bioterrorist threat, contamination in the air, food or water, or escalating chronic disease. Public health is carried out through a system of federal, state and local agencies, private organizations and other diverse partners. The state Department of Human Services (DHS) sets public health policy and provides administrative and technical assistance to county health departments and other local partners who deliver services in their communities. | |
| Mission Statement | |
To protect and promote the health of all the people of Oregon.
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| Organization | |
| Annual Performance Measures | |
| Programs | |
| Public Health Division Program listing. | |
