OPM PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE


PROVIDING ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY

Monitor Health Status Monitors Diseases

• Identifies vulnerable populations
  
• Performs community and rapid health
  assessments

Develop Policies
and Plans

• Contributes to public health policy
  
• Participates in strategic health planning

Diagnose and Investigate Health Problems

• Plans, investigates, and responds to public health emergencies
  
• Gathers, analyzes, and investigates data regarding actual or potential threats to human health (communicable diseases, chronic diseases, injuries, etc.)
  
• Recommends individual and community level control measures

Inform and Educate

• Develops, coordinates, and implements health education and health promotion activities
  
• Supports health and at-risk communication activities

Mobilize Communities to Address Health Problems

• Establishes partnerships with community members to address community health needs
  
• Evaluate Health Services
  
• Evaluates the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of health services and progresses towards program goals

Link People to Needed Health Services

• Provides targeted health services (e.g. for TB, STD, HIV, and other public health conditions)
  
• Serves as a consultant regarding available resources in the community

For more information please review our Health Initiative brochure:
OPM Health Initiative.pdf