6. Enforce Laws and Regulations that Protect Health and Ensure Safety

•- The review, evaluation, and revision of laws and regulations designed

•-- Protect health and safety;

•-- Reflect current scientific knowledge; and

•-- Utilize best practice for achieving compliance.

•- Education of persons and entities obligated to obey or to enforce laws and regulations designed to protect health and safety in order to encourage compliance.

7. Link People to Needed Personal Health Services and Assure the Provision of Health Care when Otherwise Unavailable

•- Assessment of access to and availability of quality personal health care services for the state's population.

•- Assurances that access is available to a coordinated system of quality care which includes outreach services to link population to preventive and curative care, medical services, case management, enabling social and mental health services, culturally and linguistically appropriate services, and health care quality review programs.

8. Assure a Competent Public and Personal Health Care Workforce

•- Assessment of workforce to meet community needs for public and personal health services.

•- Maintaining public health workforce standards, including efficient processes for licensure/credentialing of professional and incorporation of core public health competencies needed to provide the Essential Public Health Services into personnel systems.

•- Adoption of continuous quality improvement and life-long learning programs for all members of the public health workforce, including opportunities for formal and informal public health leadership development.

9. Evaluate Effectiveness, Accessibility, and Quality of Personal and Population-Based Health Services

•- Assessing the accessibility and quality of services delivered and the effectiveness of personal and population-based programs provided.

•- Providing information necessary for allocating resources and reshaping programs.

•- Utilization of technology and other methods to interpret and communicate health information to diverse audiences in different sectors.

•- Collaboration in integrating and managing public health related information systems.

10. Research for New Insights and Innovative Solutions to Health Problems

A full continuum of research ranging from field-based efforts to foster improvements in public health practice to formal scientific research.

Linkage with research institutions and other institutions of higher learning.

Internal capacity to mount timely epidemiologic and economic analyses and conduct needed health services research.