These essential public health services can
be viewed as partly cyclic. The cycle begins
with the identification and investigation of
health problems. These initial processes, in
conjunction with the process of mobilizing
and educating communities, lead to the development
of policies and plans for interventions.
Through the activities of a competent
workforce, these policies and plans are translated
into the outputs or interventions of the
public health system, the enforcement of regulations
and laws, and the development of
other interventions and services to which individuals
and populations are linked. Although