10 Essential Services of Public Health

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10 Essential Services of Public Health
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Institute of Medicine (IOM)The Future of Public
Health 1988

• The Nation has lost sight of its public health
  goals and has allowed the system of public health
  to fall into disarray
• We have slackened our public health vigilance
  nationally, and the health of the public is
  unnecessarily threatened as a result.

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The Future of Public Health Recommendations
(1988)

• MISSION
• assuring conditions in which people can be
  healthy

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The Future of Public Health Recommendations
(1988)

• GOVERNMENTAL ROLE
• Assessment
• Policy Development
• Assurance
• core functions became de facto framework
  delineating the practice of public health at both
  state and local levels

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Public Health Functions Working Group1994

• Established by DHHS
• Defined more concrete set of activities-10
  Essential Public Health Services
• Provide the foundation for the nations public
  health strategy
• Healthy People 2010 objectives regarding
  infrastructure
• Development of National Public Health Performance
  Standards

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Assessment

• Monitor health status to identify community
  health problems
• Diagnose and investigate health problems and
  health hazards in the community

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Policy Development

• 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

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Assurance

• 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 a competent public health and personal
  health care workforce
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality
  of personal and population-based health services

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Serving all functions

• Research for new insights and innovative
  solutions to health problems

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• 8 Statutorily Mandated Functions
• Public Health Statistics-participation in
  mechanism for collection, tabulation, analysis
  and reporting for health jurisdiction served
• Health Education-public and professional
  information and education with emphasis on
  prevention
• Nutritional Services-nutrition program including
  appropriate activities in education and
  consultation for promotion of positive health ,
  prevention of ill health, and dietary control of
  disease
• Maternal and Child Health-comprehensive plan for
  maternal and child health services to include
  prenatal, childbearing and reproductive care,
  family planning, child and adolescent health,
  child abuse, genetic disease control
• Communicable and Chronic Disease
  Control-preventive services including
  immunization, screening, referral for treatment,
  prevention and control of vision, hearing, dental
  problems
• Environmental Services-water, food, air, wastes,
  vectors, housing, bathing places, safety, noise,
  toxic hazards, nuisances
• Community Nursing Services-Provision of community
  nursing
• Emergency Medical Services-provision for
  development and implementation of an emergency
  medical service system including identification
  of primary services, mutual aid and mass casualty
  plans, participation in regional planning