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Mission Statement
The City of El Paso Department of Public Health promotes, ensures and improves the health and well being of the El Paso community.
Public Health Functions
- Monitor the health status of individuals in the community to identify community health problems
- Diagnose and investigate community health problems and community health hazards
- Inform, educate, and empower the community with respect to health issues
- Mobilize community partnerships in identifying and solving community health problems
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community efforts to improve health
- Enforce laws and rules that protect the public health and ensure safety in accordance with those laws and rules
- Link individuals who have a need for community and personal health services to appropriate community and private providers
- Research new insights and innovative solutions to community health problems
- Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services in a community
- Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
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