The goal of the Health Promotion program is to
help people lead healthy lives by improving lifestyles, creating
healthful environments, and preventing chronic disease.
Health Promotion focuses on the three most important factors that
support good health and help prevent all chronic diseases:
• Physical Activity
• Good Nutrition / Healthy Eating Habits
• Tobacco Use Prevention
Physical activity and healthy eating are important to people of all
ages in preventing obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases.
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United
States and in Georgia. Together, tobacco use, physical inactivity,
and unhealthy diet, account for 33% of the annual deaths in the
United States, and the related conditions of heart disease, cancer
and stroke are the leading causes of death in Georgia, making up
more than 53 percent of all deaths statewide. More than 10,000
Georgians die each year from tobacco-related illnesses, including
cancer; cardiovascular diseases; stroke and heart attack; and
respiratory diseases.
What Health Promotion Does
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Assess health needs and resources,
plan and develop initiatives through partnerships and coalitions,
implement programs and activities to improve individual and
community health, and evaluate the outcomes of initiatives.
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Support
healthy lifestyles through environment and policy changes, awareness
and media campaigns, resources and information, education and
training, and technical assistance.
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Work with
community partners, including schools, worksites, health care
providers, faith-based organizations, parks and recreation
departments, universities, other civic and community organizations
and agencies, and the community-at-large, to develop and implement
strategies that will improve individual's and group's health-related
behaviors.
Health Promotion Program and Activity Areas of Concern
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Prevention: Avoidance of risk factors and adoption of healthy
behaviors as lifestyle habits that support health. Includes
increasing knowledge, skills training, motivation for change,
adoption of new behaviors and strategies (including physical
activity, healthy eating, and tobacco avoidance), use of clinic
preventive services, and policy and environmental changes that
support healthy lifestyles.
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Management: Awareness and use of appropriate disease management
and self-management techniques and opportunities for those who
already have developed chronic disease.
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Professional Awareness: Prevention and management best practices
and resources for chronic diseases. Appropriate emergency response
and treatment for chronic disease sufferers experiencing acute
events.
The Health Promotion Coordinator's role is to be an advisor and
facilitator, who provides technical assistance to partners and
coalitions, and serves as a resource on the public to promote health
in the community.
Thinking About Quitting Tobacco?
Call the Georgia Tobacco Quit Line: 1-877-270-STOP (7867)
1-877-2NO-FUME (266-3863) Spanish Language
TTY: 1-877-6534 (Hearing Impaired)
Data Summaries
Tobacco
Use (2007)
Obesity
in Children and Youth (2007)
Healthy Eating (2007)
Physical Activity in Youth (2007)
Cardiovascular Disease (2007)
Stroke
(2007)
Obesity in Children and Youth
(2006) |
