Department of Public Health

Introduction

The Department of Public Health and Health Planning aims to protect the health of the population of the Nuble Region by identifying, monitoring, and intervening on risk factors for the health of people and their environment and health problems collectives; timely designing prevention strategies focused on equity, participation, commitment, integrity, and respect for people, their family, and community environment.

Its main faculties, functions, and attributions are:

• Ensure compliance with the authority’s national health standards, plans, programs, and policies, adapting them to the local reality.
• Prepare and execute regional development policies, plans, and projects in the area of ​​public health and health planning, which frame in the strategic guidelines of the sector or the National Health Plan.
• Ensure the proper execution of public health actions by the entities that make up the care network of each health service.
• Provide technical advice on formulating the Regional Public Health Plan in the Region, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Ensure compliance with national health standards, plans, programs, and policies set by the Undersecretary of Public Health. Likewise, to adapt to the local reality, the strategies and programs implemented from the SEREMI are carried out in the establishments that make up the healthcare networks of the Health Services or, where appropriate, execute them directly or through the agreements that may enter crazy. With third parties for this purpose.
• Facilitate decision-making for authorities by providing reports with existing scientific evidence from an ethical and political perspective.
• Maintain updated information on the epidemiological situation of the Region, for which it may request from the Health Services and other agencies in the Region the knowledge and background information necessary for the fulfilment of its function.
• Construct and propose health metrics to evaluate the impact of policies and interventions and improve health management.
• Collaborate in formulating the Regional Public Health Plan in the Region, it’s monitoring, and evaluation.
• Plan every six months the Units that depend on this Sub-department and that, in their actions, contemplate the Strategic Objectives from 2011 to 2020.

Health department goals

Among the most important objectives are:

• Improve and keep the population’s health, especially those with some vulnerability, such as people with chronic diseases.
• Efficiently provide better health services.
• Make health services respond to the changing needs of the population.
• Improve the capacity and quality of the health system, primarily through technological innovation.
• Make the best use of the economic resources assigned to the health department.

It is essential to bear in mind that, to achieve its objectives, the department has to work in constant cooperation with other institutions.

In the health of the population, a multitude of variables involves that are beyond the direct powers of the department, for example, factors related to the environment. Hence cooperation is a necessity of the first order.

Functions of the Public Health department

Among the functions of a health department are:

• Planning and organisation of health services and resources, say hospitals, health centres, emergency services, etc.
• Regulation and surveillance of matters related to hygiene and food safety.
• Health promotion and disease prevention.
• Epidemiological surveillance refers to the management of data on incidence and prevalence band
• Pharmaceutical regulation and organization
• Promotion of innovation within the health system.
• Attention to situations of drug addiction.
• Management of the budget assigned to the department.

Although these are some of the most well-known functions of the health department, they are not the only ones. Those features may vary depending on the healthcare system you enroll in.

Organization of the Public Health department

If we previously referred to the fact that the functions of a health department could vary, in the case of the organizational structure, this variability is even more significant.

It takes into the thought that the structure that an organization adopts will depend to a great extent on the functions that the department is responsible. Generally, this has:

• A Director or General Counselor of Health
• A deputy general manager
• Deputy directors of the different departments include the economics, pharmacy, legal, and innovation departments.

Depending on the level within the society, the different health departments will, in turn, regulate by other structures, such as a health department operating at the national level or a council of ministers holding the letters.

Conclusion

Ensure that public health services are provided equally to the entire population, regardless of race, social class, or gender. Strengthen medical infrastructure and expand services. Seek sufficient public financing, manage economic resources efficiently and combat corruption.