Health Education

Services:

Nutrition and Health Education Division

Health Education's role is to provide leadership, direction and programs necessitated by the themes and issues facing Collier County. It is estimated that up to 50% of premature illnesses and deaths could be eliminated if people just chose positive lifestyle behaviors, i.e. cessation of smoking, moderate exercise, moderate alcohol consumption, low fat diets and protected sex. However, many Americans are not heeding our positive health messages. Today, fewer than half of adults exercise regularly, one third are overweight and one-quarter smoke. Drug use among our young is up, smoking in the eighth and tenth grades has increased by 50% in the last six years and more women are choosing to use alcohol during their pregnancy. These are just a few of the grim facts which public health and health education must confront.

Overview

Health Education Programs:

• School-based cardiovascular health promotion in Immokalee schools

• Nutrition Education with overweight intervention *

• Free Community Health Screenings *

• Train the Trainer Nutrition Seminars *

• Smoking Cessation programs, Tobacco-Free Collier

• Toll-Free, telephone-based tobacco use cessation resource for adults: Tobacco-Free Collier

• Generation Excellence Immokalee Health Campaign

• Coordination of Community Coalition, which offers a website, The Collier Health Promotion Coalition, with resources for healthy eating and active living

• Creating walking-friendly communities through partnerships and community

Speakers Bureau:

• Presentations available on all topics associated to services available

Other Places of Interest:

Chronic Disease Community Intervention Project

Tobacco Free Florida

Health Education Articles:

• Reaching your LDL cholesterol goal can reduce a risk factor for heart disease

• Mental and Physical health closely related

• Child Nutrition - Coping with a Picky Eater

• Skinny meat choices

• Benefits of physical activity

• The Collier Health Promotion Coalition

Contacts:

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