Each district department of health and municipal health department shall ensure the provision of a basic health program that includes, but is not limited to, the following services for each community served by the district department of health and municipal health department:
- (1) Monitoring of health status to identify and solve community health problems;
- (2) investigating and diagnosing health problems and health hazards in the community;
- (3) informing, educating and empowering persons in the community concerning health issues;
- (4) mobilizing community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems for persons in the community;
- (5) developing policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts;
- (6) enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety;
- (7) connecting persons in the community to needed health care services when appropriate;
- (8) assuring a competent public health and personal care workforce;
- (9) evaluating effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services; and
- (10) researching to find innovative solutions to health problems.
(P.A. 14-226, S. 3.)