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The State Public Health Board shall carry out the following functions, namely :- (a) Formulate and implement State level strategies and plans of action for the determinants of health, especially food, water, sanitation and housing ; (b) Identify the State’s health goals to be included in the mandate of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)/ Autonomous Council; (c) To get clinical and medical audits carried out on select conditions of public health importance, receive relevant reports and initiate necessary' action. (d) Institute systems of confidential inquiry into deaths to identify and analyse the failures of health systems, towards systemic improvements; (e) Establish and implement performance standards, measures, capacities and process for health care infrastructure, service providers, quality or performance improvement that are required for achieving the objectives of this A ct; (f) Make available, at all levels of health care, essential and rational drugs that are listed in the National List of Essential Medicines and/or the latest Model List of Essential Drugs of WHO, and promoting rational drug use; (g) Develop public health IEC infrastructure and programmes for mass public health campaigns and activities, with THE ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 7,2010 995 District Public Health board institutionalized involvement of educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, community based organizations, associations of medical providers, traditional health care practitioners, mass media including privately owned mass media, and all stakeholders in promotion of public health; (h) Formulate and implement human resources development plans to ensure availability, efficiency and regular capacity building of health care providers, commensurate with the public health needs of the State ; (i) Develop and implement capacity building plans for all the bodies anti committees being set up at various levels under this A ct; (j) Develop mechanisms for initiating public-private partnership in implementation of public health programmes that ensure equity and quality of health care services; (k) Develop mechanisms for creating and empowering decentralized monitoring committees at all levels, both rural and urban and seeking their feedback in structured manner; (l) Ensure coordination between all the public health related authorities and agencies within the health services in the rural areas and municipal health services in the urban areas; (m) Ensure coordination with other Government departments, agencies and with the Central Government for handling public health emergencies ; (n) Coordinate with the relevant Government departments and agencies to ensure availability and access to adequate and safe food, water, sanitation and housing throughout the State; (o) Review the existing laws and policies of State Government that are related to health/ public health, to determine compliance with this act and make recommendations for reform I amend or repeal where necessary ; and (p) Appoint committees and sub- committees to address technical aspects of specific areas or needs for above or other similarly relevant purposes or any other mandate of State Government, on such terms as it may deem fit, involving dissolving, removing or streamlining any of the existing ones.