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The City of Bridgeport Department of Health & Social Services provides a wide range of services through programs that are designed to promote and protect the health of all Bridgeport residents and visitors. The department strives to address the core public health functions as mandated by the State of Connecticut.
These essential functions consist of promoting and protecting community health through attention to women and children’s health issues and communicable and infectious diseases, planning for and responding to disasters, providing adult indigent care and protecting our City’ s valuable natural resources while improving the environment.
Our Vision:
Healthy people in healthy communities with equity and well-being for all.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to promote and protect the health of the people of Bridgeport through the provision of essential public health services, monitoring of programs, enforcement of laws and ordinances, and collection of health information.
10 Essential Public Health Services:
The 10 Essential Public Health Services provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. To achieve equity, the Essential Public Health Services actively promote policies, systems, and overall community conditions that enable optimal health for all and seek to remove systemic and structural barriers that have resulted in health inequities. Such barriers include poverty, racism, gender discrimination, ableism, and other forms of oppression. Everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health and well-being.
- Assess and monitor population health status, factors that influence health, and community needs and assets.
- Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the population.
- Communicate effectively to inform and educate people about health, factors that influence it, and how to improve it.
- Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health.
- Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health.
- Utilize legal and regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health.
- Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy.
- Build and support a diverse and skilled public health workforce.
- Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement.
- Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
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