Under the leadership of public health nurses, the Minnesota Department of Health
(MDH) developed a manual, Public health interventions: Applications for public
health nursing practice, to guide public health nursing practice. MDH distributed this
manual, commonly known as the Public Health Intervention Wheel, to public health
departments and public health nurses in 2001. Informed by literature and expert
practice, the Public Health Nursing Intervention Wheel framework provides a com-
mon language that names the work of public health nurses.