# Presentation: SVW232FU37IBWM66WP53H3565XVDUEZI

## Public Health System

## Monitor health status
Diagnose and investigate health problems
Inform, educate and empower people
Mobilize communities to address health problems
Develop policies and plans

**Diagnose and investigate health problems**
**Inform, educate and empower people**
**Mobilize communities to address health problems**
**Develop policies and plans**

**Enforce laws and regulations**
**Link people to needed health services**
**Assure a competent workforce - public health and personal care**
**Evaluate health services**
**Conduct research for new innovations**

**The Essential Public Health Services**

**Notes:**
The ten essential services are shown here on the screen and include:
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 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 assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
Assure a competent public and personal health care workforce.
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

These are the foundation of any public health activity. 
For example, any public health program needs data to operate. Essential Service #1 includes activities such as data collection, community health assessments and the maintenance of population health registries.  As another example, Essential Service #7 includes personal health care services, transportation and other enabling services such as assuring the availability of culturally appropriate personnel and materials. 

Since the Ten Essential Services were released, numerous initiatives have explored the utility and feasibility of these services and have found them to be a good descriptor of public health practice.

## Ground Rules

**COMMITMENT TO THE PROCESS: **
**The instrument is only as valuable as the effort each person contributes. **
**A willingness to share knowledge and be truthful about accomplishments / limitations will ensure a good assessment of system capacity.**
**NO JUDGMENT:**
**The purpose of the assessment is to get an honest and accurate perception of strengths and weaknesses of the system which will help with quality improvement initiatives.**
**Participants and / or organizations are not  being judged by their answers.**
**ALL PERSPECTIVES ARE VALUED:**
**Each individual has a different point of view regarding system strengths & weaknesses.**
** ****Everyone should listen to all perspectives to understand the “system’s” level of functioning.**
**TIME:**
**Completing the assessment takes time.**
**To keep a balance between sharing experience & perspectives and getting through the instrument, it is important to keep discussion short and relevant to the model standard.**
**PERSPECTIVE:**
**Although each partner is valued as an individual, the desired end result is to gain understanding about the system as a whole.**

## Scoring Option Definitions

| Score | Definition |
| --- | --- |
| No | No activity. |
| Minimal | Some activity by an organization or organizations within a single service/geographic area.  Not connected or minimally connected to others in or across the District. |
| Moderate | Activity by one or more agency or organization that reaches across the District and is connected to other organizations in the District but limited in scope or frequency. |
| Significant | Activity that covers the entire District [is dispersed both geographically and among programs] and is connected to multiple agencies/organizations within the District Public Health System. |
| Optimal | Fully meets the model standard for the entire District. |