Public health cannot ensure services that improve health if those services lack quality. Public health must:
A) Provide the same service to all citizens
B) Maintain quality in its workforce and continually evaluate service effectiveness
C) Rid itself of low-quality services
D) Depend on outside agencies to evaluate effectiveness

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Maintaining quality in the workforce and continually evaluating service effectiveness is essential to ensure that public health services are improving health. Without this, there is no guarantee that the services are effective or have a positive impact on health outcomes. Providing the same service to all citizens and ridding itself of low-quality services are important but are not sufficient without also ensuring quality in the workforce and service effectiveness. Dependence on outside agencies to evaluate effectiveness is also not ideal as public health should have internal mechanisms to evaluate and improve services.

Public Health Cannot Ensure Services That Improve Health If Those