Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services What is Public Health? - Public health is often confused with health care.
- A health care provider diagnoses and treats individual patients.
- Public health professionals develop plans of action to improve the health status of the entire population.
- Focus of public health has changed over the years.
- Early efforts directed toward disease prevention.
- Expanded insurance coverage to most people has allowed public health to focus on its principal roles of protecting the public and promoting health.
Public Health cont.
Effective Public Health System
CDC’s Ten 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 actions to identify and solve health problems
Essential Services cont.
- 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
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