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During the winter and spring of 1999, the St. Louis County Department of Health contracted with the National Civic League (NCL) to develop a training process to better address the core public health functions of assessment, assurance, and policy development. While working to create this training program, NCL found that the health departments that most effectively meet their core public health functions are those that have redefined how they go about trying to carry out those functions. In short, they have adopted a communityoriented approach. Under traditional approaches to core public health functions, public health and health care experts are the active agents; they work to establish policy, determine priorities, and then ensure that a community' s health needs are being met. Under a community-oriented approach, local government, nonprofits, businesses, and citizens, as well as public health officials and experts, all play a role in meeting those functions. In other words, the whole community is involved. While working with the St. Louis County Department of Health to adopt a holistic approach to core public health functions, we found that in addition to redefining how these func

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Author

Derek Okubo; Karen Weidman

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley (ISSN 0027-9013)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences