Health is central to human happiness and prosperity. Healthy populations live longer, are more productive.
The departments’ three major functions:
- Formulation of a health policy
- Health regulation
- National referral Health facilities
Other key functions include:
- Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based
- health services
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
- Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problem
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care
- when otherwise unavailable
- Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
- Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems