R380-40-7. Local Health Department Personal and Population Health Services

  (1) Each local health department shall provide health education and health promotion services to include: conducting community health assessments, identifying leading causes of disease, death, disability and poor health; and implementing evidence-based services to address the identified priorities.

  (2) Each local health department shall provide evidence-based communicable disease prevention and control services to include: reporting, surveillance, assessment, epidemiological investigation, and appropriate control measures as defined in State disease plans for reportable communicable diseases and other communicable diseases of public health concern.

  (3) Each local health department shall ensure health services by assessing the availability of health-related services and health providers in local communities; identifying gaps and barriers in services; convening or participating with community partners to improve community health systems; and providing services identified as priorities by the local assessment and planning process if approved by the local board of health.

  (4) Each local health department shall provide epidemiology services including surveillance for reportable conditions, tracking occurrence of conditions affecting the health of communities, and obtaining or preparing epidemiologic data to guide prioritization of problems, and development and evaluation of prevention and control programs.

  (5) Each local health department designated as a local registrar of vital statistics shall ensure the registration of appropriate certificates for all live births, deaths, and fetal deaths that occur in the registration area, as required by Utah Code Annotated Section 26-2.

  (6) Each local health department shall provide evidence-based services as guided by local community assessment and planning to include:

  (a) maternal and child health services,

  (b) injury control services; and

  (c) chronic disease control services.