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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 ten greatest improvements to Public Health in the 20th century:
- Vaccination
- Motor Vehicle Safety
- Safer Workplace
- Control of Infectious Diseases
- Decline in death from Heart Disease & Strike
- Safer and Healthier Foods
- Healthy Moms & Babies
- Family Planning
- Fluoridation of Drinking Water
- Recognition of Tobacco use as a health hazard
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MISSION STATEMENT:
Our mission is the improve the quality of life in the Lehigh Valley by promoting healthy behavior, protecting the environment, preventing disease, and making our community a healthy place to live, work and play.
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