Professional Services
Health Educators provide education and develop community systems that promote healthy lifestyles and prevent disease. These strategies include activities directed at three levels: the community, the organization and the individual.
Health Educators strive to enable people to make voluntary, informed choices regarding their health. Utilizing epidemiology, assessment and evaluation techniques and behavioral change theory, health educators implement strategies to facilitate improvement in the health status of individuals and communities. These strategies involve education and technical support for policy or environmental changes to assist communities in moving toward needed change.
The Health Education staff is committed to providing the best services in a professional, compassionate and efficient manner while serving multi-cultural communities. Health Education is a dynamic process that serves as the cornerstone to the disease prevention and health promotion efforts in Region 1 of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
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Public Health Nursing is a dynamic profession. It is the synthesis of the art and science of nursing and public health. Public health nurses play a major role in all aspects of public health including: preventing epidemics and the spread of disease; protecting against environmental hazards; preventing injuries; promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors; responding to disasters and assisting communities; assuring the quality and accessibility of health services.
In public health nurses assess health status, develop policy for programs, and provide assurance in their interventions with individuals, families, and communities. Recognizing the complex forces affecting health delivery systems, public health nurses work as members of interdisciplinary teams and in collaboration with other public entities and the private sector to provide essential public health services.
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The nutrition staff in Region 1 includes Registered Dietitians, Nutrition Education Specialists and a Breastfeeding Coordinator. We work as members of interdisciplinary teams in a variety of settings to provide medical nutrition therapy to groups and individuals.
Our goal is to promote optimal nutrition status for individuals and families though evaluation and education. Our staff also provides technical assistance to physicians, community groups and other health professionals. The nutrition staff is available to all clients of the district and has expertise and training in a wide variety of medical conditions as well as general nutrition throughout the lifecycle.
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Public Health social workers, as team members, work in different settings to provide direct clinical services to clients and comprehensive community services. Staff are trained in group, family, and individual counseling, as well as systems intervention and community organization.
Social Work services are designed to maximize health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. Services are geared toward the prevention, early identification, and alleviation of psychosocial issues impacting the use of primary care and the client's response to health services. Public Health Social Workers have expertise with critical issues, such as: teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, violence, depression, elder abuse, child abuse, substance abuse, family dysfunction, children with special health care needs, and caregiving issues.
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Training in Bloodborne Pathogens is available to organizations, businesses and industries. Please call the telphone number listed below if a training class is desired.
Immunizations-Flu, Hepatitis B, tetanus and pneumonia vaccinations are available to organizations, businesses and industries.
CPR courses under American Heart Association guidelines is available to organizations, businesses and industries.
There are fees for each of these training sessions. For more information please call 864-260-5808.