Question

Review the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services. Choose one of these areas and explain why it is important.

Answer 1

This essential environmental public health services point out the responsibility of local public health system. They are :

1) identify the community health problems .

• Monitor health status and periodic assessment to know about the health risk
• Population health register should be maintained to the details of any outbreaks.

2) Identify the health problems and hazards in the community.

• Enable for timely identification of any issues.
• Response plan to address the issue

3) Provide awareness and empower people about the health issues.

• provide skills and behaviour for healthy life

4) Improve community partnership to identify and solve health problems

• Develop public voting
• boost to both formal and informal partnerships for health improvement

5) Promote plan and strategy to support individual and community health efforts

• Emergency response plan
• state / community improvement plan

6) Implement law and regulations that protect health and promise safety.

• overall it protect an promote health

7) Connect people to needed personal health and assure the provision of health care if unavailable

• Help to identify population with barriers to care
• Provide ongoing care and management

8) Promise a capable public and personal health care workforce

• Provide continuing education and work force standards

9) Examine the effectiveness and quality of health services .

• Manage performance
• ongoing evaluation improve quality

10) Research for new ideas and solutions to health problems.

• Create a link between public health practice and academic research.

From all these area i think the 3 one is more important than others - " Provide awareness and empower people about the health issue". As education plays a pivotal role in both social and economical development.

• By education the people will gain knowledge which shape their attitude to make a good decision for a healthy life. it address the issues that can effect the health and well being of individual , families , communities , population and society as well as the generation to come . Hence, it is more important than other rules, which they focus more on the modification of rules and regulations of the health care system.
• Education encourages the population to take ownership in their health problems, which prevent them from practicing risky behaviours ( smoking, drinking , junk food intake, drugs) and practice likely to have health behaviours .
• People will be aware about the condition and its management , so that they will not be panic at the time of its outbreak .
• Prevention is always better than cure.