Local Public Health Advocacy

Oakland County Health Division safeguards and improves community health through organized community efforts involving prevention of disease, control of communicable disease, protection of the environment, health education and health promotion.

Oakland County Health Division

• 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
• Enforces laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
• Links people to needed personal health services and assures provision 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