10 Services Of CA Dept Of Public Health

How much do you know about the California Department of Public Health.  Here are 10 of their primary services:

1. Monitoring health status to identify community health problems including health disparities.
2. Detecting and investigating health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Informing, educating, and empowering people and organizations to adopt healthy behaviors to enhance health status.
4. Partnering with communities and organizations to identify and solve health problems and to respond to public health emergencies.
5. Developing and implementing public health interventions and best practices that support individual and community health efforts and increase healthy outcomes. 
6. Enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Linking people to needed personal health services and ensuring the provision of population-based health services.
8. Assuring a competent public health workforce and effective public health leadership.
9. Evaluating effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of public health services, strategies, and programs.
10. Researching for insights and innovative solutions to public health problems.