10 Essential Services Worksheet
Directions: Complete the Practice Example column by providing an example of how each essential service is applied in practice. Include a reference link for each practice example in the designated boxy. A References page is not needed.
The 10 Essential Public Health Services provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. To achieve equity, the Essential Public Health Services actively promote policies, systems, and overall community conditions that enable optimal health for all and seek to remove systemic and structural barriers that have resulted in health inequities. Such barriers include poverty, racism, gender discrimination, ableism, and other forms of oppression. Everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health and well-being. (The Public Health National Center for Innovations, 2020b, p. 1)
(The Public Health National Center for Innovations, 2020b, p. 1)
Essential Service Description Practice Example
1
Assess and monitor population health status, factors that influence health, and community needs and assets.
Essential Service Description Practice Example
2
Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the population.
3 Communicate effectively to inform and educate people about health, factors that influence it, and how to improve it.
4 Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health.
5
Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health.
6 Utilize legal and regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health.
7
Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy.
Essential Service Description Practice Example
8 Build and support a diverse and skilled public health workforce.
9
Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement.
10 Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health.
The Public Health National Center for Innovations, 2020a, pp. 2-3).
References
The Public Health National Center for Innovations. (2020a). The Futures Initiative: The 10 essential public health services: Aligning the 10 essential public health services and the foundational public health services. https://phnci.org/uploads/resource-files/EPHS-Alignment-EPHSvsFPHS.pdf
The Public Health National Center for Innovations. (2020b). 10 essential public health services. https://phnci.org/uploads/resource-files/EPHS-English.pdf
