The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is here to help Virginians live healthy. Health education is important because it teaches people how to make good choices. These choices can help you stay well and prevent diseases.
VDH offers several programs to help you learn more about staying healthy:
- Every Woman’s Life: Helps women get the screenings they need for breast and cervical cancer.
- Family Planning: Offers family planning and reproductive health services, including birth control.
- Food Safety Program: Provides food safety resources for the public. Also provides information for food establishment operators.
- Tobacco Control Program: Provides information about the dangers of tobacco and offers help for people who want to quit.
- Walk With Ease Program: Helps people living with arthritis manage their pain. Also helps people without arthritis who want to make walking a regular habit.
- WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Program: Offers free nutrition education and resources for families.
These are just a few of the many wonderful programs VDH offers. This National Health Education Month, VDH encourages you to use these resources to improve your health!