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