Working with a community of partnerships, the Cape May County Health Department is dedicated to achieving a healthy community environment and the prevention of disease by assuring that high quality services, including personal health services, are accessible to all.

Public Health Goals:

• Prevent epidemics and the spread of disease
• Protect against environmental hazards
• Prevent injuries
• Promote and encourage healthy behaviors
• Respond to disasters and assist communities in recovery
• Assure the quality and accessibility of health services
  
  Essential Public Health Services:
• Monitor health status to identify community health problems and community resources
• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
• Inform, educate, empower people about health issues
• Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
• Link people to needed personal health services and assure provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
• Assure a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems