Equal Access:        

Goal: To reduce educational, social and environmental barriers to accessing public health programs. Public Health Services considers equal access for all groups when planning programs and presentations.

Health Hazard Investigation:

Goal: To identify and act on health hazards and to ensure community health protection during a health hazard.

Program Planning and Evaluation:

Goal: To develop effective, efficient programs based on local community health information.

Program Standards:

Chronic Diseases and Injuries:

Goal: To contribute to prevention and early detection of chronic diseases, a major cause of death and disability. Misuse of alcohol and other substances contribute to development of chronic diseases and to injuries, which are the leading cause of death in children, youth and young adults.       

• Chronic Disease Prevention
• Early Detection of Cancer
• Injury Prevention including Substance Abuse

Family Health:

Goal: To provide assistance and information about child and family health and about community resources available to all parents starting in the prenatal period.

• Child Health
• Reproductive Health
• Sexual Health

Infectious Diseases:

Goal: To reduce or eliminate infectious diseases, deal with outbreaks and assist infection control in institutions, day care centres and personal service settings; To control infectious disease in food and water, and specific diseases such as sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS, vaccine preventable diseases, tuberculosis and rabies.

• Control of Infectious Diseases
• Food Safety
• Infection Control
• Rabies Control
• Safe Water
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) including HIV/AIDS
• Tuberculosis (TB) Control
• Vaccine Preventable Diseases