10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services

1. Monitor environmental and health status to identify and solve community environmental health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and health hazards in the community
3. Inform, educate. and empower people about environmental health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships and actions to identify and solve environmental health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community environmental health efforts
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect environmental health and ensure safety
7. Link people to needed environmental health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
8. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based environmental health services
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems