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A New Public Health Framework
As part of the Provincial Government’s broad focus on well-being, Health and Community Services has developed a new Public Health Framework.
The Framework lays out the essential functions of public health:
- Health protection
- Disease and injury prevention
- Health promotion
- Health surveillance and population health assessment
- Health emergency preparedness and response
To provide these functions, public health will act through six core programs, identified by the framework as:
- Communicable disease prevention and control
- Population health assessment, surveillance, and epidemiology
- Growth and development in the early years
- Environmental public health
- Health promotion and non-communicable disease and injury prevention
- Health emergency management
Each of these functions and core programs contribute to the provincial approach for well-being and engages health and social systems as critical partners.
