Tag: health departments
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$54,000 from CDC will help some counties fight obesity, inactivity
Multiple counties across the state have been awarded federally funded grants from the state Department for Public Health to help fight obesity and inactivity in their communities, according to a DPH...
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KET’s Clearing the Smoke’ explores smoking issues in Kentucky; guests called for smoking ban, note concerns about teens
An old tobacco barn in Magoffin County, seen by thousands daily on the Mountain Parkway, has found a new purpose – to help peoplestop smoking. Tobacco barns It once advertised...
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Smiling Schools tooth-varnish program expands to 10 more counties; now in 40
Kentucky’s Smiling Schools program is expanding to 10 more counties and will now provide its free preventive tooth varnishing treatments to children in 40 elementary schools, most in Appalachia, according...
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Lincoln County set to lose four school nurses if alternate funding or new partnerships are not found
UPDATE, Aug. 11: The school board made up part of the health department’s budget cut, allowing it to keep seven nurses, “but not before a lengthy discussion which included talk...
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Year of perseverance pays off for advocates of school tobacco ban in a county where raising tobacco was long a way of life
Clinton County in red (Wikipedia map) A year of perseverance, education and community input by the local and district health departments paid off as the Clinton County Board of Education...
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Lake Cumberland District Health Department using polls in an effort to get school boards to make campuses tobacco-free
Countywide smoking bans are unlikely to pass anytime soon in most of rural Kentucky, but more county school districts are making their campuses tobacco-free. Now a multi-county health department is...
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Health department urges Kentuckians to walk regularly; state ranks high in obesity, low in physical activity
With summer here, the state health department is urging Kentuckians to adopt a regular walking schedule to connect with friends and neighbors and improve health and fitness in a state that ranks...
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Louisville opens first needle exchange in state; officials predict rural counties will be slow to follow
Photo by Scott Utterback, The Courier-Journal Louisville Metro Public Health & Wellness opened its mobile needle-exchange program Wednesday, June 10, making Louisville the first place in Kentucky to implement such...
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Ten-county Lake Cumberland District Health Department is the latest to ask schools to foot more of the bill for school nurses
The Lake Cumberland District Health Department told school districts in its 10-county area in December that it would no longer be able to pay for nurses for each school, setting...
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New rule will improve reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections in health-care facilities, which are getting worse in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky will have a new weapon, in the form of data, to fight infections acquired in hospitals and other health-care facilities, with legislative...