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From: How to characterize the public health workforce based on essential public health operations? environmental public health workers in the Netherlands as an example

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Percentage of full time equivalents per environmental essential public health operation. 1. Surveillance, evaluation, and analysis of (the determinants of) environmental health and wellbeing. 2. Monitoring and response to environmental health hazards and emergencies. 3. Health protection, enforce laws and regulations that protect environmental health and ensure safety. 4. Health promotion, including action to address social determinants, health inequity and health literacy. 5. Disease prevention, diagnosis and investigation of environmental health problems and health hazards. 6. Assuring governance for health, support environmental health public policy. 7. Assuring a sufficient and competent environmental public health workforce. 8. Assuring sustainable organisational structures, enforcement of the quality of health services. 9. Advancing research and development on environmental public health .10. Regional consultation and support

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