Promote, Protect, Prevent

Public health investigates and identifies the causes of poor and good health and acts on those causes to improve the health of the population by preventing disease, illness and injury; protecting populations from health risks; and promoting healthy public policies, environments and behaviours. [...] The Emergency Maternal, Child inner ring of the circle illustrates Management & Family Health the guiding principles/values for the public health system, and the VIBRANT outer ring symbolizes the critical COMMUNITIES connections required for the public in which all people achieve Positive Mental health system to fulfill its role in Environmental their best health and well-being Health & Prevention [...] The public health system works closely with the First Nations Health Authority and Tripartite partners across all the goals and their respective objectives to design and deliver public health programs and services that meet the needs of First Nations communities and respond to specific health priorities for First Nations and Aboriginal people in BC. [...] OBJECTIVES The public health system, in collaboration with key partners, aims to maximize the healthy physical, emotional and social development of women, children, infants and youth to enable them to achieve their full potential through the following: 1. Enhance the health of all women during their childbearing years and the health of women during pregnancy and the postpartum period through unive [...] Through the Tripartite First Nations Health Plan, the Ministry of Health •. STOP HIV/AIDS Framework— continues to work with First Nations leadership and the federal From Hope to Health: Towards government to increase rates of timely diagnosis and treatment an AIDS-free Generation among HIV-positive First Nations and Aboriginal peoples and to improve screening for, and treatment and prevention of,