Mission
Our mission is to assure the conditions necessary for people to live healthy lives -- physically, mentally, socially, spiritually -- and to function at optimal capacity.
We will achieve this mission by providing services to:
- Protect against unsanitary conditions and environmental hazards
- Monitor health status of people to identify community health problems
- Investigate disease, health problems, and health and safety hazards in the community
- Inform, educate and empower people about health and safety issues
- Prevent epidemics and the spread of disease
- Prevent injuries
- Promote the choice of healthy behaviors
- Respond to disasters and assist in recovery
- Evaluate the quality and accessibility of personal and community health services
- Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
- Seek adequate funding and other resources to provide the essential public health services
- Enforce laws, rules and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
