Career Goal Statement (Environmental health Practioners)

Career Goal Statement

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presented 17 public health infrastructure objectives in the publication Healthy People 2010. Three of the objectives were specifically directed toward developing the public health workforce. The report states:

“In addition to basic knowledge of public health, all public health workers should have competencies in their areas of specialty, interest, and responsibility.… The workforce needs to know how to use information technology effectively for networking, communication, and access to information. A skilled workforce must be culturally and linguistically competent to understand the needs of and deliver services ...