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Halifax County Department of Health Overview
Our Mission:
To educate, protect, serve, and support the community by ensuring quality Health Care and Environmental Health Services in a manner both affordable and accessible
Our Vision:
With Caring Hearts and Helping Hands, We will achieve excellence in Health Care and Environmental Health Services.
Essential Services:
The ten essential public health services, as promulgated by the United States Public Health Service and Institutes of Medicine, are:
- Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
- Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
- Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
- Support laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
- Assure a competent public and personal health care workforce.
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
Halifax County Health Department services include:
- Breast and Cervical Cancer Screenings
- Diabetes Management
- Family Planning Services
- Health Education
- Immunizations
- Maternal Health Services
- Child Health Services
- Nutritional Services
- Kindergarten Screenings
- Communicable Disease Control
- Vital Statistics
- Environmental Health Services
- Animal Control
- Home Health and Hospice Services
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Last Modified: 06/07/2007 12:41:11 PM