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Indian Health Service: The Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives

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Ten Essential Services - 1. Monitor health status or critical factors to identify community environmental health and protection related problems.
Ten Essential Services - 2. Diagnose and investigate environmentally related health problems and environmental health and protection hazards in the community.
Ten Essential Services - 3. Inform, educate, and empower people about environmental health and protection issues.
Ten Essential Services - 4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve environmental health and protection issues.
Ten Essential Services - 5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community environmental health and protection efforts.
Ten Essential Services - 6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
Ten Essential Services - 7. Link people to needed services and assure that provision of environmental health and protection services when otherwise not available.
Ten Essential Services - 8. Assure a competent environmental health and protection workforce.
Ten Essential Services - 9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of environmental health and protection services.
Ten Essential Services - 10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health and protection problems.
Biosafety & Infection Control
Disaster Emergency Response
Environmental Management
Food and Milk
Industrial Hygiene
Infectious Disease
Injury Prevention
Insect/Vector Control
Institutional Environmental Health
Life Safety
Literature Resources
Medical Searches
Miscellaneous
Professional Registration or Certification
Radiation Protection
Vessel Environmental and Occupational Health
Water and Wastewater


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