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The Value of the National Environmental Health Performance Standards to EH Programs

The Value of the National Environmental Health Performance Standards to EH Programs. Volusia County Florida. Existing Tools. MAPP State/Programmatic Audits Internal Reviews. EH Renaissance. 10 Essential Services National EH Performance Standards Geographic Information Systems

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The Value of the National Environmental Health Performance Standards to EH Programs

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  1. The Value of the National Environmental Health Performance Standards to EH Programs Volusia County Florida

  2. Existing Tools • MAPP • State/Programmatic Audits • Internal Reviews

  3. EH Renaissance • 10 Essential Services • National EH Performance Standards • Geographic Information Systems • Assessment, Monitoring • Smart Growth • Health Impact Assessment • Cause/Effect Exposure/Disease Outcomes

  4. Population Based EH • Requires a strategic focus on the societal causes of ill health • Societal or “Social Determinants of Health” are broad • Changes in structural conditions can affect many individuals simultaneously and have broad and diverse impacts on multiple health outcomes • Cost effective

  5. Individual Family Neighborhood Community Society Levels of Determinants of Behavior & Disease

  6. How this tool is used… • Build agency capacity for essential services • Build community accountability • Consistent services • Provide support for GR programs • Teach EH, local BOH, Health department directors, state level program, & stakeholders

  7. Future of EH Funding Scenarios Future of Volusia County EH Financial Disaster Plan Figure EHF-1a

  8. Figure EHF 1-b

  9. Addition to Health Department Director Assistant Director for Public Health Programs Office of Assessment

  10. Staff Comments • “Since I was a young man of 19 I was attending EH classes. If you asked me back then what I would have been doing in an EH HD setting, I would have responded with #1 and #2. My response now would be #6.” • “I find #3 particularly important. The public should be made to be EH professionals.” • “We do #8 very well.”

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