Building capacity of environmental health services at the local and national levels with the 10-essential-services framework.
Journal of Environmental Health › Vol. 70 Nbr. 1, July 2007
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Building capacity of environmental health services at the local and national levels with the 10-essential-services framework.
Introduction
The 10 essential public health services, referred to here as "the 10 essential services," constitute an organizing framework that describes the public health activities critical to all local public health systems (Public Health Functions Steering Committee, 1994). Developed in the mid-1990s by U.S. Public Health Service agencies and other major public health organizations, the 10-essential-services framework was designed to address the "disarray of public health" described in the seminal 1988 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report titled The Future of Public Health (IOM Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health, 1988). In recent years, a growing research base has linked the 10-essential-services framework to performance standards as a quantifiable way of documenting the effectiveness of public health programs (Bakes-Martin, Corso, Landrum, Fisher, & Halverson, 2005). This article describes how the Multnomah County Environmental Health Section (MCEH) used the 10-essential-services framework to a) assess the strengths and weaknesses of environmental health ...See the full content of this document
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