Consumer Health Services Plays an Active Role in the Health CommunityThe Development of the CHS and environmental factors By Wella Maria [website] from Raleigh, NC on January 23, 2006 Category: Consumer Products & Services Consumer Health Services In their campaign against food and waterborne diarrhea diseases, the World Health Report of 2005 had a simple statement – Make Every Mother and Child Count. Food and waterborne diarrhea diseases are actually the leading causes of illness and death in less developed countries, killing approximately 1.8 million people annually, most of whom are children. It is actually because of this grave number, among other factors, that the importance of Consumer Health Services (CHS) come to play. CHS acts through: reducing the occurrences of food safety hazards and the occurrences of hazards to health and safety, as created by public interaction. CHS also provides trainings and classes for Food Safety, as an effort to come nearer to their primary goal of securing the consumption of the public. Consumer Health Services also promote public health and safety by conducting hazard analyses based on inspections in Restaurants, Meat Slaughter & Processing Plants, Schools & Institutions/Day Cares, Grocery & Convenience Stores, Dairy Farms & Dairy Plants, Bed & Breakfast & Ranch Recreation Facilities, Temporary Food & Mobile Food Units, and Food Processing Establishments. CHS, as a section of some governments, also take charge of the environment though activities such as swimming pool inspection, assisting with drinking water safety, and assisting communities with nuisance complaints, and the like. Some CHS units also take their responsibility in food health security to farther measures by a farm-to-table holistic approach. With this principle, the CHS is committed to food safety inspection and education that encompasses all aspects of the food chain, from the farm production level to the final consumption of the food product. Inspections are conducted to reduce the risk of food borne illness as well as influence the behavior of everyone that could be responsible for food safety. This extensive activity of making everyone accountable includes those individuals on the farm and ranch, those involved in processing, and those who handle foods in stores, restaurants, schools, or the home. Through communication and education, owners, operators and consumers alike are actively involved in all aspects of food production to help them produce safer foods for the good of all. As previously stated, food borne diseases takes a major toll on health and is acknowledged as a primary threat world wide. It is public knowledge that millions of people actually fall ill, and many die as a result of eating unsafe food. CHS helps in recognizing food safety as an essential public health function and one that is of great importance for everybody. |
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