Strategic Vision 2007 to 2009
Vision: Healthy People in Healthy Communities
Mission: To improve the health of our communities by identifying sustainable solutions to community health issues, developing partnerships for implementation of strategies, and demonstrating our success through measurement of outcomes.
Guiding Principles: Public health's 3 core functions and 10 essential services
Public Health Core Functions: Assessment, Policy Development and Assurance
10 Essential Services:
- 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 and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
- Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
Reference: Adopted: Fall 1994, Source: Public Health Functions Steering Committee, Members (July 1995): American Public Health Association.Association of Schools of Public Health.Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.Environmental Council of the States.National Association of County and City Health Officials.National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors.National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.Public Health Foundation.U.S. Public Health Service --Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Food and Drug Administration.Health Resources and Services Administration.Indian Health Service.National Institutes of Health.Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
