Develop and maintain the public health workforce Train, maintain and develop the public health workforce. There was also a view that a 'promote better health' function should be expanded to 'enhance health and quality of life,' to incorporate the concepts of: (1) effort from non-health sectors that affects public health, and (2) quality of life and health maintenance (rather than improvement) where the presence of disease makes health improvement an inappropriate aim. Agreement on these definitional extensions was lacking in further consultations and they have not been adopted.