Health Department

Ten Essential Services

  1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems
  2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
  3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
  4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
  5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
  6. Enforce laws and plans that support individual and community health efforts
  7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
  8. Assure a competent public and personal health care workplace
  9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
  10. Conduct research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems