Original Essential Public Health Services Framework

Key points

  • The essential public health services are public health activities that all communities should undertake.
  • These public health activities operate within a broader public health system.
  • This ensures that all entities that contribute to the health and well-being of the community are recognized in assessing the provision of public health services.
Image of the original 10 Essential Public Health Services.

Background

The Core Public Health Functions Steering Committee developed the framework for the Essential Services in 1994. The committee included representatives from US Public Health Service agencies and other major public health organizations.

Essential Public Health Services

This image shows the original 10 Essential Public Health Services Framework in a pinwheel with Research'research' at the center. The Framework organizes the essential services within the wheel are separated into three sections: (1) Assessment, includes monitor health and diagnose & investigate; (2) Policy Development, includes inform, educate, empower, mobilize community partnerships, and develop policies, and (3) Assurance, includes enforce laws, link to/provide to care, assure competent workforce, and evaluate.around three core public health functions: (1) Assessment. This includes 'Monitor Health' and 'Diagnose & Investigate.' (2) Policy Development. This includes 'Inform, Educate, Empower;' 'Mobilize Community Partnerships;' and 'Develop Policies.' (3) Assurance. This includes 'Enforce Laws;' 'Link to/Provide Care;' 'Assure Competent Workforce;' and 'Evaluate.'
The Original 10 Essential Public Health Services Framework

The 10 Essential Public Health Services describe the public health activities that all communities should undertake:

Goals

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

Resources

The 10 Essential Public Health Services: An Overview

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