| Vision: Healthy People in Healthy Communities
Mission: To satisfy our customers by providing community and preventive health services that promote and improve the health, safety, well being, and quality of life of San Bernardino County residents and visitors.
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Welcome to the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health website.
Our dedicated staff works to prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, protect against environmental hazards, prevent injuries, promote and encourage healthy behaviors, respond to disasters and assist communities in recovery, and assure the quality and accessibility of health services throughout the county.
To achieve this goal, we place a high value on strong working alliances with local community groups representing the diverse populations who live in all areas of our large county.
We encourage you to explore our website and take advantageof the information it contains. We welcome your ideas on how we can improve services and provide you with useful health information.
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Jim Lindley
Public Health Director
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Paula Meares-Conrad
Interim Assistant Public Health Director
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What is Public Health?
“Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.”
- The Institute of Medicine
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Maxwell Ohikhuare, MD
Health Officer |
The art and science of safeguarding and improving community health through organized community effort involving prevention of disease, control of communicable disease, application of sanitary measures, health education and monitoring of environmental hazards.
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Public Health Professionals Are
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 Health Officers/Directors
Physicians
Public Health Nurses
Epidemiologists
Environmental Health Specialists
Educators
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Nutritionists
Social Workers
Laboratory Workers
Dentists
Physical Occupational Therapists |
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The Public Health Profession
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Monitors health status to identify community health problems.
Diagnoses and investigates health problems and health hazards in the community.
Informs, educates, and empowers people about health issues.
Mobilizes community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
Develops policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
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Enforces laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
Links people to needed personal health services and assures provisions of health care when otherwise unavailable.
Assures a competent public health and personal health care work force.
Evaluates effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
Researches new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
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