Ajara, T. A.

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

(Lecture note 2)

The Ten Essential Public Health Services

1. Monitoring of health status to identify and solve community health problems.

2. Diagnosis and investigation of health problems and health hazards in the

community.

3. Informing, educating and empowering people about health issues.

4. Mobilization of community partnerships and action to identify and solve

health problems.

5. Development of policies and plans that support individual and community

health efforts.

6. Enforcement of laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

7. Linking people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of

health care when otherwise unavailable.

8. Assuring competent public and personal health care workforce.

9. Evaluation of effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and

population-based health services.

10. Conducting research for new insights and innovative solutions to health

problems.

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Ten Great Public Health Achievements --

United States, 1900-1999

I. Vaccination

II. Motor-vehicle safety

III. Safer workplaces

IV. Control of infectious diseases

V. Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke

VI. Safer and healthier foods

VII. Healthier mothers and babies

VIII. Family planning

IX. Fluoridation of drinking water

X. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard

The Main Role of Public Health

Public Health:

a. Promotes the welfare of the entire population.

b. Ensures the security of whole population.

c. Protects the population from the spread of infectious diseases.

d. Prevents environmental hazards among the population.

e. Helps to ensure access to safe and quality care to benefit the population.

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