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 Health Survey - YOU MIGHT BE CALLED
Yasmin Rivera, health educator with the Hunterdon County Department of Health, prepares a batch of TAKE OUR CALL flyers advertising the upcoming health telephone survey to begin on August 23. The flyers and posters are being placed in high-traffic areas throughout the county to draw resident awareness of the health and lifestyles survey and encourage participation should a resident be one of the randomly selected parties to get a call. In all, the survey aims to compile resident responses from 1,100 households in the county. The data will be used to help design health programs and health care services for Hunterdon County residents. read more >>> |
Six steps for Healthy Swimming
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HUNTERDON IS NEW JERSEY’S HEALTHIEST COUNTY
Hunterdon County is ranked as New Jersey ’s healthiest county. This is one of the new findings of the "County Health Rankings: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health," a rigorous health study of the nation's 3,016 counties by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute. The new countrywide rankings provide a comprehensive way for public health and community leaders to measure the local health of every county in every state and see how well they are doing and where improvements are needed. The goal is to mobilize communities to overcome health barriers and make their county a healthier place to live.
“That Hunterdon County is ranked as the healthiest county in New Jersey is indeed good news for all of us who experience what this county has to offer on a daily basis,” said John Beckley, health officer and director of the Hunterdon County Department of Health. “As county health officer, I’m indebted not only to our own county health department staff but also to the local health care community and the many organizations with which we work to move us all in a healthier direction. This ranking is proof positive that the resources we invest, the energies we’ve devote, are bearing the fruit we all can enjoy.”
The rankings are a complex system of comparisons about what makes one community healthy and another not so healthy. The report ranks each county in two ways: "Health Outcomes" and "Health Factors." Health outcomes are derived from a county's disease and death rates. read more >>> |
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 Public Pools Open with County Health Department Inspections
Before the first spouting cannonball of the summer, a lot of work will have occurred leading up to that opening splash. Read more...
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 Maternal Child Health Is All About Caring Ivonne Kyle, RN, and member of the Public Health Nursing & Education division, recently shared her personal experiences and vast knowledge of maternal child health needs here in Hunterdon County during a radio show at WDVR-89.7FM. Despite the fact that Hunterdon County is repeatedly cited by numerous national surveys to be one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S., there exists a tangible need in the community for services that assure access to pre-natal care, which helps result in a healthy outcome for mother and baby. For more information, see Maternal Child Health. |
 Public Health In Motion On Air Yasmin Rivera (left), health educator, and Karen Alelis (right), epidemiologist, both with the Hunterdon County Department of Health, take their expertise on the air at WDVR-89.7FM to explain to area listeners how public health systems, processes, and agencies must work together to enable a local health department to protect the welfare of residents. |
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