At the end of this lecture you will be asked to think about ways the 10 Essential Services of Public Health can be used to solve a problem in your community. As an example let’s look at heart disease.

For the first essential service- Monitor health status to identify community health problems.

-Typically death certificate files are used to monitor deaths from heart disease

For the second service - Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community

Investigations are need to determine which factors (smoking , lack of exercise, weight, blood pressure problems, racial and ethnic disparities) are contributing most to heart disease deaths in a community.