The information on this Web Site is intended for Washington State Environmental Health Directors. 
 If you need assistance, visit The Washington State Division of Environmental Health Web site
or find your Local Environmental Health Jurisdiction.

10 Essential Services of
Environmental Public Health

1. Monitor environmental and health status to identify community environmental health problems.
    

2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and health hazards in the community.
    

3. Inform, educate, and empower people about environmental health issues.
    

4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve environmental health problems
    

5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community environmental health efforts
    

6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
    

7. Link people to needed environmental health services and assure the provision of environmental health services when otherwise unavailable
    

8. Assure a competent environmental health workforce
    

9. Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population based environmental health services
    

10. Conduct research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems and issues