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M7.4 Blog about your local environmental services

Review your local (city or county) health department's website and list the services that you would consider Environmental Health Services. 
I reviewed the Alameda County Public Health Department website (http://www.acphd.org/programs-and-services.aspx) for this blog post. I was surprised by the breadth of services and programs they had listed on their website. I was disappointed at how poorly organized and difficult to navigate the website itself is, but it seems there is some useful information hidden in all of the overwhelming links they have on their website. Out of all of the programs and services listed on their website, the ones that I would consider environmental health services are:
- Asthma Start Program
- Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
- Community Assessment, Planning, and Evaluation (CAPE)
- Ebola
- Emergency Preparedness - Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)
- Enterovirus D68
- Equity, Social & Health
- Hantavirus
- Lead Poison Prevention
- Rabies
- Shoo the Flu
- Tobacco Control Program
- West Nile Virus
- Wildfire Smoke
- Zika

I was surprised to see an entire program dedicated to wildfire smoke, although I was really glad to see it! I was also surprised that there was nothing on gun violence prevention. I appreciated the Shoo the Flu initiative that is a community-based program that provides vaccinations in schools. 

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  1. KJOctober 16, 2019 at 3:18 PM

    It will be our job as public health professionals to run sites and programs that will assist the people in our communities. Whatever Alameda county website is missing we can make it better since we are both residents of that county. I'm interested to see what the Rabies program is all about.

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