Public Health Services works with communities, families and individuals to identify health needs and assets, and supports individual and community action to prevent illness, protect and promote health, and achieve well being.

As a group, the public health team, which includes a Medical Officer of Health, dental hygienists, RNs, LPNs, nutritionists and health educator, have skills in a wide range of areas including community development, health education and promotion, population health, disease prevention and control, and interpretation of health status information.

The three core services are:

• Communicable Disease Prevention and Control

• Non-Communicable Disease and Injury Prevention

• Health Enhancement

Public Health offers a wide range of programs under these headings including;