Assessing Delivery of Selected Public Health Operations via Essential Public Health Operation Framework
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- To develop a survey tool that fits the Danish system and apply it in Kolding Municipality.
- To identify who is providing core service delivery EPHOs at the municipal level in Denmark.
2. Method
Sample Selection and Data Collection
- Preliminary exploration of the data by reading through the transcript and writing memos;
- Sorting the data based on the EPHOs (3, 4 and 5) and their sub-operations [16].
3. Results
3.1. EPHO 3
3.1.1. Environmental Health Protection
3.1.2. Occupational Health Protection
3.2. EPHO 4
3.2.1. Intersectoral and Interdisciplinary Capacity
3.2.2. Health Promotion: Behavioral and Social Risk Factors
3.3. EPHO 5
3.3.1. Primary Prevention
3.3.2. Secondary Prevention
3.3.3. Tertiary/Quaternary Prevention
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
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Safi, M.; Bertram, M.L.; Gulis, G. Assessing Delivery of Selected Public Health Operations via Essential Public Health Operation Framework. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6435. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176435
Safi M, Bertram ML, Gulis G. Assessing Delivery of Selected Public Health Operations via Essential Public Health Operation Framework. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(17):6435. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176435
Chicago/Turabian StyleSafi, Mariam, Maja L. Bertram, and Gabriel Gulis. 2020. "Assessing Delivery of Selected Public Health Operations via Essential Public Health Operation Framework" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 17: 6435. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176435