Health Education

For over 50 years the
City of Columbia has been committed to providing public health services through its
Health Department.
These services prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, protect against environmental hazards, promote healthy behaviors, prevent injuries and illness, assure the quality and accessibility of health services and monitor the health of the population.

Health Education

The Health Department provides health and wellness education to the community.

Please contact Stacia Reilly, Health Educator, at 874-6345 for information on our outreach education programs and resources for health promotion.

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Our Healthy Body
Lead in your home and environment
Medline Plus - Trusted Health Information for You - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Tobacco Concerns
Methamphetamine help - KCI The Anti-Meth Site
West Nile Virus education
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Examples of Health Education work and outreach activities:

	Mosquito control information display at Earth Day 2004
	Chris Coffman informing the public on the importance of Mosquito control with a display of mosquito larvae in April 2003.
	Leadosaurus and Chris teaching the dangers and control of household lead contamination