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Service Information
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A service represents one or more related activities and functions that are provided to address a particular need and to benefit specific types of individuals or groups of people.
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Asbestos and Lead Based Paint Hazard Management
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This service ensures that materials containing asbestos or lead-based paint are handled properly during construction activities. This is done through:
-Certifying and accrediting firms and individuals performing abatement (removal) of asbestos or lead paint
-Certifying firms and individuals who perform renovation activities that disturb lead paint in homes and child occupied facilities
-Inspecting abatement and renovation projects
-Is...
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Asthma
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This service strives to reduce the impact of asthma upon state residents by:
-Collecting and maintaining data on asthma statewide
-Putting a state asthma plan into action to include all age groups, ethnic groups, backgrounds and settings
-Making the general public more aware of asthma and how to prevent and control it
-Advocating for policies such as smoke-free restaurants and state vehicles
-Providing technical assistance and resources (funding and materials) to local asthma gro...
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Best Practices in Children's Health
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Services are provided to help assure quality and efficiency in health services for children by providing child health data, consumer survey data, and research for all child health programs. This service:
-Identifies the most effective ways of addressing health issues of children and spreads the word through local health departments, local review teams, offices, and commissions
-Promotes the health of adults and children with disabilities by spreading the word to community ...
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Breast and Cervical Cancer Control
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Breast and Cervical Cancer Control (BCCCP) pays for screening to detect breast and cervical cancer in North Carolina women who are:
-Low -income (250 percent of the federal poverty level or below).
-Uninsured or underinsured.
-Between the ages of 40 and 64.
The service pays for clinical breast examinations, mammograms and pap tests as well as diagnostic services and medical referral and follow-up as appropriate. There is an increased emphasis on reaching African American, Amer...
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Building Capacity for Service Delivery
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This service provides funding and technical assistance which enables local health departments to carry out their essential functions that meet community needs. This includes:
- Accrediting and maintaining accreditation on a four-year cycle. In 2006 the General Assembly passed legislation making accreditation for local health departments mandatory and specifying that the Accreditation Board be established within the Institute. They also support to the site visit process. For F...
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Child and Adult Care Food (CACFP)
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Through the reimbursement of nutritious meals and snacks, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provides aid to child and adult care institutions and family or group day care homes for the provision of nutritious foods that contribute to the wellness, healthy growth, and development of young children, and the health and wellness of older adults and chronically impaired disabled persons. CACFP staff members: Manage and evaluate program policies in...
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Child Fatality Prevention Team
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The Child Fatality Prevention Team serves North Carolinians by investigating the deaths of children from injury or neglect.
The team aims to reduce the deaths of North Carolina children from preventable causes
It recommends policies to protect the state's children
It conducts training for local law enforcement, health care and other agencies on proper techniques for child death investigations
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Child Maltreatment Prevention
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The purpose of this service is to lead the implementation of the comprehensive statewide child maltreatment prevention plan developed by a NC Institute of Medicine Task Force. There are evidence-based initiatives that support families to achieve a range of positive child outcomes, ranging improved school readiness to reduced child maltreatment. This service has played a central role in supporting the implementation of several evidenced-base services, including the...
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Children's Preventive Health Services
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Children's Preventive Health Services supports initiatives addressing availability, accessibility and utilization of health services for children from birth to 21 years of age. Working with agencies, organizations, and families statewide, this service is designed to affect policy, environment and practice changes to:
-improve nutrition and physical activity patterns
-enhance parenting skills
-decrease risk factors for child abuse and neglect
-provide specialized outreac...
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Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control
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Through this service Communicable Disease staff members detect and track the spread of diseases. This includes:
Overseeing identification and enrollment of data sources such as hospital emergency rooms for disease tracking (via the NC Disease Event Tracking Epidemiologic Collection Tool, or NC DETECT)Training new system users
Monitoring data daily for potential public health threats
Investigating potential threats in collaboration with local and state publ...
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