Promotes and Encourages Healthy Behaviors

Health educators develop special relationships with their students while teaching them about healthy behaviors and attitudes that relate to diet, physical activity, tobacco use, safety, and sexual behavior.

Promotes and Encourages Healthy Behaviors

The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program promotes and supports breastfeeding which provides substantive advantages to both the mother and the infant.

Prevents Epidemics and the Spread of Disease

Vaccines today protect 80% of the world's children against seven killer diseases-- measles, diphtheria, mumps, polio, tetanus, rubella, and whooping cough.  Effective immunization programs not only give children shots but also provide many other public health activities, such as researching and testing vaccines, mobilizing health care workers, and educating parents.

Mobile immunization clinics assist hard-to-reach populations with clinical services such as vaccines, checkups, prenatal care, mammography, and cholesterol screening.