Question

What are the 10 Local Health Department (LHD) standards?

Answer 1

Standard 1: Local health department design a module for functioning of program that will be responsible for coordination in cases of injury and violence prevention strategies. There self analysis programs evaluate their own strategies planned for injury and violence cases also.

Standard 2: They will have the staff having core competencies, knowledge, necessary skills and qualifications to address the injury and violence cases for long time period.

Standard 3: Local health department have the self motivated team. They have leadership quality, knowledge and supportive attitude to address the cases of injury and violence.

Standard 4:- Local health department collect and utilizes the data related with injury and violence cases. That data help them in improvement and strengthen. Apart from this have team who helps in raising the funds for recovery of injury and violence cases.

Standard 5:- They have the community awareness programs that bring the awareness in community about the injury and violence cases. They have the technical staff that supports the community stakeholders to control and recover the injury and violence cases.