Standard | Goal |
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Equal Access | To ensure that all Ontarians have access to public health programs. |
Health Hazard Investigation | To prevent or reduce adverse health outcomes resulting from exposure to health hazards as defined in the Health Protection and Promotion Act and including biological, physical, and chemical agents, natural or manmade. |
Program Planning and Evaluation | To ensure that local programs address the health needs of the community, with cost-effective, efficient, evidence-based approaches. |
Chronic Disease Prevention | To reduce the premature mortality and morbidity from preventable chronic diseases. |
Early Detection of Cancer | To reduce mortality from breast cancer and cervical cancer by increasing early detection. |
Injury Prevention Including Substance Abuse Prevention | To reduce disability, morbidity and mortality caused by motorized vehicles, bicycle crashes, alcohol and other substances, falls in the elderly and to prevent drowning in specific recreational water facilities. |
Sexual Health | To promote healthy sexuality. |
Reproductive Health | To support healthy pregnancies. |
Child Health | To promote the health of children and youth. |
Control of Infectious Diseases | To reduce the incidence of infectious diseases of public health importance. |
Food Safety | To improve the health of the population by reducing the incidence of food-borne illness. |
Infection Control | To reduce transmission of infectious diseases. |
Rabies Control | To prevent the occurrence of rabies in humans. |
Safe Water | To reduce the incidence of water-borne illness in the population. |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Including HIV/AIDS | To reduce the incidence of and complications from all sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV/AIDS. |
Tuberculosis (TB) Control | To reduce the incidence of tuberculosis (TB). |
Vaccine Preventable Diseases | To reduce the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases. |