Question

Give a health example of three of the ten essential public health services.

Answer 1

Public health services are an integral part of health sector which helps in prevention and promoting the health of all the people in the community.

The three essential public health services include :

• Assess , diagnose and implement the community health problems to prevent overexposion of the disease in the community.
• Identify the high risk groups for a particular disease and provide services including health education.
• Vaccination programs which can prevent epidemics in community.
• Make use of legal and regulatory acts which benefits the community health.
• Monitor population health status , health needs of the community .

All these measures are part of essential community health .

Thank you.