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Public Health Is Essential – The Ten Essential Services of Public Health: ASSESSMENT 1. Monitor Health Status to Identify Community Health Issues • Access to Health Care
• Syndromic Surveillance
• Lead Screening of young children
• Communicable Disease Surveillance
2. Diagnose and Investigate Health Problems and Hazards • Food-Borne Illness
• Screening for Tuberculosis
• Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Cancer Screening
• Policy Development
3. Inform, Educate, and Empower People about Health Issues • Community Collaborations
• Population-Wide Health Promotion
• Tobacco Use Prevention
• Car Seat Safety and Use
• Healthy Heart Activities
4. Mobilize Community Partnerships to Identify and Solve Health Problems • Healthy Living Partnership
• Worksite Wellness Programs
• Dental Health access for uninsured and underinsured
5. Develop Policies and Plans that Support Individual and Community Health Efforts • Healthy People 2010 National Objectives
• Partner Notification Assistance Program
• Contact Investigations
• Health Emergency Operations Plan
ASSURANCE 6. Enforce Laws and Regulations that Protect Health • Clean Indoor Air Act
• Restaurant Inspections to ensure food safety
• Lead Investigations to identify source of lead poisoning in children
• Water Quality Control
7. Link People to Needed Health Services and Assure the Provision of Health Care
When Otherwise Unavailable • Facilitated Enrollment for Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus
• Enrollment in Family Planning Benefit Program
• Child Find
• Tuberculosis Control Program
• Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic
• Immunization Clinic
• Certified Home Health Care
8. Assure a Competent Public Health Workforce • Training and Professional Certification
• Continuing Education through participation in Conferences/workshops
• Development of Standards of Care/Practice
• Participation in Education of Community Health Care Professionals
(nurses and therapists)
9. Evaluate Effectiveness, Accessibility, and Quality of Personal and Population-Based
Health Services • Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Activities
• Participation in Cortland Counts: An Assessment of the Health and
Well-Being in Cortland County
• Participation in the Cortland County Coalition for Long Term Care
• Participation in the Cortland Area Communities That Care
• Serving All Functions
10. Research for New Insights and Innovative Solutions to Health Concerns • Surveys: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Youth Risk
Behavior, Eighth Grade Survey.
• Focus Groups to Determine Consumer Needs
• Participation in National, State, and Local Surveys
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