G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 95 Disposition versions

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95. Public health directors are responsible, in respect of their region,

(1)  for managing the regional public health action plan provided for by the Public Health Act (chapter S-2.2);

(2)  for informing the population of the general state of health of the individuals that make up that population, the major health problems, the groups most at risk, the principal risk factors and the interventions the public health director considers the most effective, for monitoring the evolution of those elements and, if applicable, for conducting the studies or research required for that purpose;

(3)  for identifying situations which could pose a threat to the population’s health and seeing to it that the measures necessary for its protection are put in place;

(4)  for ensuring expertise in public health and advising Santé Québec on prevention services conducive to reducing mortality and avoidable morbidity; and

(5)  for identifying the situations in which intersectorial action is necessary to prevent diseases, traumas or social problems that have an impact on the health of the population and, where the public health director considers it appropriate, for taking the measures considered necessary to foster such action.

Public health directors are also responsible for entrusting any mandate to the head of a clinical department of public health.

In addition, such directors exercise any other function entrusted to them by the Public Health Act.

2023, c. 34, s. 95.