FY 27 Proposed Operating Budget

HEALTH

ORIGIN & PURPOSE: The Harford County Health Department is a service delivery unit of the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the County Board of Health. It is responsible for the provision of a wide range of preventative health care and clinical and environmental health services. This department also provides alcoholism and drug treatment services and Women's, Infants and Children Nutrition Program (WIC) services. The department provides for assessment, policy development and assurance functions which protect all citizens against preventable disease, premature loss of life and environmental pollution.

MISSION STATEMENT: To make Harford County the healthiest county in the state of Maryland

GOALS: To establish and maintain a coordinated system of continuous health assessment, policy development and assurance for the delivery of public health services to the citizens; To strive for an optimum level of protection against preventable disease, premature loss of

life and environmental pollution; To prevent and control epidemics.

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