Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention Section
The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Section of the Division of Public Health has the responsibility for prevention and control of chronic and communicable diseases and their risk factors. Section programs address: immunizations, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, tobacco control, physical activity, nutrition, health education, behavioral risk factor data, and more.
Our Mission: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is a section of the Division's Health Information & Science (HI&S) Center. The center accomplishes its mission by:
- providing timely, quality, and accessible health data and data analyses to its internal and external partners in order to fully inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of public health programs;
- effectively managing public health programs for the prevention and control of important public health problems;
- responding at any time to urgent health problems with expertise and analyses needed for their understanding and control;
- providing targeted health communication based on science and designed with the audience in mind;
- maintaining and enforcing public health regulations;
- evaluating activities to assure they are having the expected impact; and
- continually striving to better serve its internal and external customers.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs
- Behaviorial Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- Cancer Prevention and Control
- Diabetes Prevention and Control
- HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control
- Immunization Program
- Physical Activity Promotion
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention and Control
- Tobacco Prevention and Control
- Tuberculosis Control
- Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program
