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Article: Essential Public Health Services
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ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
In its 1988 book,
The Future of Public Health
, the Institute of Medicine proposed three "core functions" of public health: assessment, policy development, and assurance. During the five years following the release of the publication, these core functions became a de facto framework delineating the practice of public health, particularly at the state and local levels.
Stimulated in part by the potential to include public health in the then active discussions about national health care reform, and by the clear need to develop a more descriptive framework describing public health, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) convened a national workgroup in 1993. ...