A National Strategy to Revitalize Environmental Public Health Services
A CDC Initiative www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/default.htm
overarching goal
Enhance and revitalize the system of environmental public health services in order to address the broad range of issues facing states and communities.
goal
- Build capacity to strengthen and support environmental public health services, particularly at the local level.
- Support research to define effective approaches to enhance environmental services.
- Communicate and market environmental health services among stakeholders and to the public and policymakers to build support.
- Promote the development of a competent and effective environmental public health services workforce.
- Create strategic partnerships to foster communication and interaction among stakeholders, especially policymakers.
HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010
ranks the environment among the four primary factors affecting health and lists 30 enviornmental public health objectives.
Read the environmental section of this report online.
“We must continue to focus our efforts toward developing the next generation of environmental public health leaders — they are essential to the future of the public health infrastructure and, more specifically, to the health of our communities.”
Dr. Sharunda Buchanan, Chief Environmental Health Services Branch, CDC