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Some of the most
important services provided by Southern Seven Health Department include
health information, health education, and health promotion.
Whether a one time presentation or a two day workshop, the intent
is to reduce health risk and promote better health of all ages and
groups. Health information,
health education, and health promotion is done through partnerships with
schools, worksites, agencies, and person's in community settings.
Southern Seven supports programming toward meeting goals for
Healthy People 2010. Public health
knowledge is so vital in today's world.
While many people understand how the decisions they make affect
their health, many others are still learning how to make healthier
choices. For example, chronic
disease has some risk factors, which are beyond one's control like
family history, race, and age. There
are also risk factors within one's control; what you eat,
how active you are, and whether or not you smoke or expose yourself to
secondhand smoke. Southern
Seven Health Department seeks programs, which are directly linked to
best practice and which can improve health and reduce health risk.
Following are areas of programming offered in Health Education.
Adolescent
Health / Teen Pregnancy Prevention
- The Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention program
offers Abstinence based Sexuality Education, Youth Development, and
Public Awareness. Teen
Pregnancy Prevention curriculum and services are geared for adolescent
girls and boys ages 10 - 16 or grades 5 through 12.
Curriculum uses different approaches in its effort to reduce
first time teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and HIV/AIDS.
Youth Development programming is intended to improve teen's
skills in building self esteem, resolving conflict, increasing positive
health choices, and increasing access to health services.
Southern Seven collaborates with schools and communities in
improving the school's role of pregnancy prevention education and
services. We also partner
with communities in completing assessments and gathering data. Education
in this area can be provided to youth, school personnel, parents and/or
peer educators. Coordinated
School Health - The
purpose of Coordinated School Health is to promote collaboration between
local health departments and school districts to implement the Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention's eight components for a
coordinated school health program model.
A model which over time, is about keeping students healthy,
reinforcing positive healthy behaviors, and making it clear that good
health and learning go hand in hand. This
approach is designed to help young people grow into healthy and
productive adults by focusing on the physical, emotional, social, and
educational development of students kindergarten through 12th
grades Heart
Smart For Women - The Office
of Women's Health in Click on the link
below for a schedule of upcoming Heart Smart for Women classes and the
locations. Heart Smart for Women
Upcoming Class Schedule Massac, Pulaski, and Alexander counties Union, Johnson, Pope, and Hardin counties
Southern
Seven Women's Initiative for Cardiovascular Health
- SSWICH was made available through the Department of Health and Human
Services/Office of Women's Health ASIST2010 and is a three year
funding received FY'08. Through
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