R380-40-2. Definitions

  (1) "Department" means the Utah Department of Health.

  (2) "District" means the area and population served by a local health department.

  (3) "Evidence-based services" are based on evidence-based practices. Evidence-based practices include interventions, programs, strategies, policies, procedures, processes or activities that have been chosen based on evidence that they improve health outcomes. Evidence-based practices indicate a continuum of practices and can include emerging, promising and best practices.

  (4) "Minimum performance standards" means the minimum duties performed by local health departments for public health administration, personal and population health, environmental health, and emergency preparedness in addition to the powers and duties listed in Section 26A-1-114 and is equivalent to the phrase "minimum performance standards" in Section 26A-1-106(1)(c).

  (5) "primary care specialty" means pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, or obstetrics and gynecology.