The Department Population Health Assessment of Health and Social Services commits to providing Health Surveillance resources, in the form of funding, expertise, support, Health Promotion and ongoing consultation, in order to build local Disease and injury prevention community capacity to achieve success in improving Health protection the health of individuals, communities, and Nunavut. [...] The organizational structure needs to reinforce team-based approaches to the goals of the strategy and other areas of public health practice and interest. [...] A typical output of this analysis is the creation of profiles of the health of Health protection populations and health status reports for communities This is a long-standing core function for all public health and decision makers to inform priority setting, planning systems. [...] The assurance of safe food and water, the of programs and policies, and the monitoring of their regulatory framework for control of infectious diseases, impact. [...] A public health approach to improve health status • The collection and application of information and requires more than the resources of the Department knowledge to decision making.