Table 1.

Essential components of public health services

- Monitor health status to identify community 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 regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

- Link people to needed personal health services and ensure provision of care.

- Ensure a competent public and personal health care workforce.

- Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population based health care.

- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.