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Essential Public Health Services       and IOM Core Functions

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Essential Public Health Services       and IOM Core Functions

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1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community

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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

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Assurance
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
7. Link people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
8. Ensure the provision of a competent public and personal healthcare workforce
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

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10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

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Monitor Community Health Status

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The Core Competencies Needed for Health Care Professionals

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The Core Competencies Needed for Health Care Professionals

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The Core Competencies Needed for Health Care Professionals

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All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics.

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5. How to address public health services

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5. How to address public health services

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1. Ensure community health assessments include social determinants of health
2. Community-level determinants and policies and practices should be included in investigations
3. Outreach and educational efforts should address social and structural determinants of health inequities
4. Engage and collaborate with community members
5. Leverage evidence-based policies that affect social determinants of health to include safe and affordable housing and develop and implement state and community health improvement plans that include and address the social determinants of health in collaboration with community partners
6. Develop strategies to enforce existing laws
7. Educate community on access to entitlement programs such as Medicaid
8. Support staff training
9. Ensure there are interventions that address social determinants of health inequity
10. Grow research to include social determinants of health and health related outcomes

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Identify and Solve Community Health Issues

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Identify and Solve Community Health Issues