Ten Essential 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 plans that support individual and community health efforts
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
- Assure a competent public and personal health care workplace
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
- Conduct research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems