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Clark and Dubois Counties

Essential Service 6 Are we enforcing laws and regulations to protect the public’s health?. Clark and Dubois Counties. Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative. Public Health.

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Clark and Dubois Counties

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  1. Essential Service 6 Are we enforcing laws and regulations to protect the public’s health? Clark and Dubois Counties Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative

  2. Public Health • Healthcare that deals with the health status and outcome of entire communities or populations. • The practice of applying scientific knowledge to health promotion and disease prevention at the population level. • “What we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which all people can be healthy.” (IOM, 1988).

  3. Ten Most Significant Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century • Vaccinations • Fluoridation of drinking water • Control of infectious diseases • Safer workplaces • Recognition of tobacco as a health hazard • Safer and healthier foods • Motor-Vehicle safety • Family planning • Decline in deaths from heart disease/stroke • Healthier moms and babies

  4. The Ten Essential Services of Public Health Essential Service 6

  5. Enforce Laws and Regulations That Protect Health and Ensure Safety Are we evaluating and enforcing laws and regulations to protect our community? Essential Service 6

  6. What does Essential Service 6 Include? Focus on laws, regulations, and ordinances • Review • Evaluation • Improvement • Enforcement

  7. Essential Service 6Addressing Environmental Quality and Health-Related Behavior • Quality of our drinking water • Food safety • Childhood immunizations • Quarantine and Isolation • Sanitation • Seat belts/child safety seats • Assuring workplace safety • Prohibiting alcohol/tobacco to minors

  8. Essential Service 6 Model Standards

  9. Model Standard 6.1 • Review and Evaluate Laws, Regulations, and Ordinances • Identify public health issues that can only be addressed through laws, regulations, or ordinances. • Have access to current federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and ordinances that protect the public’s health. • Review public health laws, regulations, and ordinances at least once every 5 years. • Have access to legal counsel for assistance in the review of laws, regulations, and ordinances.

  10. Model Standard 6.2 • Participate actively in the Improvement of Laws, Regulations, and Ordinances • Identify local public health issues that are not adequately addressed through existing laws, regulations, and ordinances. • Participate in the modification of existing laws, regulations, and/or the formulation of new laws, regulations, and ordinances designed to assure and improve the public’s health • Provide technical assistance and public health expertise for drafting proposed legislation, regulations, and ordinances.

  11. Model Standard 6.3 Enforce Laws, Regulations, and Ordinances • Identify organizations in our LPHS with authority to enforce public health laws, regulations, and ordinances. • Assure that all enforcement activities are conducted in a timely manner in accordance with laws, regulations, and ordinances. • Inform and educate individuals/organizations of the meaning and purpose of public health laws, regulations, and ordinances with which they are required to comply. • Evaluate compliance of regulated organizations and entities.

  12. What are examples of public health issues that can be addressed through laws, regulations, or ordinances in Dubois County? Discussion

  13. What authority does the health department have in enforcing laws, regulation or ordinances? Discussion

  14. What other organizations in Dubois County have authority to enforce public health laws, regulations, or ordinances? Discussion

  15. Does the health department review public health laws, regulations, and ordinances once every 5 years? Discussion

  16. Does the health dept have access tolegal counsel to assist in review of laws, regulations, and ordinances? Discussion

  17. How do we assure that health dept enforcement activities are conducted in a timely manner in accordance with law, regulations, and ordinances? Discussion

  18. How do we inform/educate the public about laws, regulations, and ordinances? Discussion

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