- 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
- Assure a competent public health workforce
- Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
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10 Essential Services of Public Health