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Navigate the dynamic landscape of emerging public health initiatives while delving into the core principles of foundational public health. Explore the intersection where innovation meets time-tested strategies, shaping healthier futures and stronger communities.
The Public Health Leadership Forum, funded by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, has worked to create a “minimum package of services” needed for all health departments. It focuses on the suite of skills, programs, and activities that must be available in state and local health departments everywhere for the health system to work anywhere, and for which costs could be estimated. The result was a conceptual framework describing both the foundation and programs that no health department should be without.
Foundational Public Health Services include:
Other areas of locally defined significance include:
Learn more at Foundational Public Health Services.
In some capacity, Lake Cumberland District Health Department engages in all the Foundational Public Health Services. The Kentucky Health Departments Association has developed a crosswalk (see below) that translate such into the “cost centers” to which we code our work time.