The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is the premier national organization representing local health departments. NACCHO supports efforts that protect and improve the health of all people and all communities by promoting national policy, developing resources and programs, seeking health equity, and supporting effective local public health practice and systems.
Public health departments work to promote health, prevent disease and protect communities. By focusing on the community as a whole, public health departments provide services based on the community’s specific needs.
Public health departments provide several essential services:
- Monitoring health status and understanding health issues facing the community
- Protecting the community from health hazards
- Providing information to the community so individuals can make healthy choices
- Engaging the community to identify and solve health problems
- Developing public health policies and plans
- Enforcing public health laws and regulations
- Assisting individuals in the community to locate and receive health services
- Evaluating and improving health programs
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