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A safe and healthy environment is one form of preventive medicine that you can't buy at the drugstore or get from your doctor's office. Yet, it's crucial to the well-being of you and your family. Environmental health services are an essential part of Florida's public health programs. Administered by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services through your local health department, these services are aimed at preventing or reducing health risks that may occur in your daily surroundings. Detecting and correcting environmental dangers that can cause disease or injury is the job of Florida's county health department sanitarians. They are an important part of a public health team that also includes doctors, nurses and administrative personnel. You may not be aware of the wide range of services provided by these sanitarians and the other environmental health workers. Yet almost every day, you and your family receive benefits directly or indirectly from their work. Through public Education, periodic inspection, investigation of complaints and enforcement of laws relating to safety and sanitation, these environmental health workers help to make your neighborhood and community a healthier place to live. |
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