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General
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OCCHD VISION:
Healthy Choices Through
Awareness
OCCHD MISSION:
Working with people,
families and communities
To Protect Health, Promote Health
And Prevent Disease
In
Oklahoma City
and Oklahoma County
CORE PUBLIC HEALTH
FUNCTIONS -
Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
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ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH
SERVICES
Integrated with Core Public Health Functions
Assessment
- Monitor health status to identify
community problems
- Diagnose and investigate health problems
and health hazards in communities in Oklahoma County
Policy Development
- Inform, educate and empower people about
health issues
- Mobilize community partnerships and
action to identify and solve health problems
- Develop policies and plans that support
individual and community health efforts
Assurance
- Enforce, monitor and advocate for laws
and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
- Link people to needed personal health
services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise
unavailable
- Assure a competent public health and
personal health care work-force
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility,
and quality of personal and population based health services
Assessment - Policy Development -
Assurance
- Research for new insights and innovative
solutions to health problems
These CORE VALUES are what
we stand for - they guide our actions:
CARING - SERVICE -
EXCELLENCE - INTEGRITY
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