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All About Local Public Health

What is Public Health?

"Public health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play." American Public Health Association (APHA): https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health

"Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world." CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/what-public-health

What are some of the things that Local Health Departments do? - 1

 

Some of the things that Local Health Departments do

 

Healthy Communities

 

Environment

 

Prevention

 

Infectious and Communicable Diseases

Images created/designed by: Meg Dlusniewski, MSW, MPH, Regional Public Health Coordinator, North Shore Public Health Collaborative