Look for Panhandle Public Health District’s annual report

Editor,

Included in this week’s edition of the paper is the PPHD’s annual report featuring the Panhandle’s Community Health Improvement Plan. We know that more than anything, our health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play. Communities that come together to create an environment where making the healthy choice the easy choice will have better health outcomes for their citizens.

The Community Health Improvement Plan lays out a road map of how, together, we all can make the Panhandle a healthier place. The strategies chosen call for policy, system and environmental changes and have been proven to work.

The four priority areas are:

1. Healthy Living: Healthy Eating, Active Living, Breastfeeding

2. Mental and Emotional Well Being

3. Injury and Violence Prevention

4. Cancer Prevention

No one person or one agency can do this alone. It will take all of us working together to improve the health of the Panhandle. Join us in making these changes happen! For more information please visit our website at http://www.pphd.org or contact me at 308-487-3600 ext. 102.

Kim Engel,

Panhandle Public Health District Director