Departments & Services

10 ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES:

The 10 Essential Public Health Services provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. NJDOH uses the 10 Essential Public Health Services as a roadmap to ensure equity in care and improve the health of every New Jerseyan.

To achieve equity, the Essential Public Health Services actively promote policies, systems, and overall community conditions that enable optimal health for all and seek to remove systemic and structural barriers that have resulted in health inequities.

Such barriers include poverty, racism, gender discrimination, ableism, and other forms of oppression. Everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health and well-being.

The 10 Essential Public Health Services

Assess and monitor population health
Investigate, diagnose, and address health hazards and root causes
Communicate effectively to inform and educate
Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships
Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws
Utilize legal and regulatory actions
Enable equitable access
Build a diverse and skilled workforce
Improve and innovate through evaluation, research, and quality improvement
Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH:

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.