Office of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

We are a department of professionally trained Health Educators committed to improving the health of our community by mobilizing, supporting and working closely with community members.

We envision a healthy Clark County where citizens are empowered to achieve optimal health and well being.

Our mission is to build and expand community collaborations, programs, policies, and resources to promote and support healthy lifestyles, healthy communities, and the elimination of health disparities.

The following programs are the cornerstone of our work in Clark County:

1. Chronic Disease
2. Injury Prevention
3. Tobacco Control
4. Get Healthy Clark County website

Chronic Disease

The Chronic Disease Prevention Program encourages and supports individuals and community efforts to adopt healthy behaviors, lifestyles and environments.

Improper nutrition, physical inactivity and tobacco use are directly related to the onset or aggravation of a number of chronic diseases including:

• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Diabetes
• Obesity

Our chronic disease prevention programs focus on addressing these three modifiable risk factors and serve as the cornerstone of our efforts to prevent the incidence of chronic diseases and enhance the quality of life of those currently living with chronic conditions.

Injury Prevention

The mission of the Injury Prevention Program is to promote public health prevention approaches to reduce morbidity (disease), mortality (death), and risk behaviors related to unintentional and intentional injuries.

Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in Nevada and Clark County for all age categories from five through 44. Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death in Clark County for children four years of age and under.

The leading cause of intentional injury death in Nevada and Clark County is suicide. Nevada is one of only three states that have more deaths from suicide than motor vehicle crashes.

Tobacco Control

The Southern Nevada Health District Tobacco Control Program has four major goals:

1. Prevent youth initiation of smoking
2. Promote cessation among youth and adults
3. Eliminate secondhand smoke exposure
4. Eliminate health disparities among diverse populations

The health district tobacco control program works to raise awareness utilizing counter-marketing strategies, community initiatives, school and youth-based programs, surveys, and support local coalitions and community groups that address tobacco issues.

Get Healthy Clark County

Learn more about our programs by visiting our interactive web site created just for our community called www.gethealthyclarkcounty.org.

You will find screening information, charts for tracking new healthy behaviors, information links, and fun and informative health surveys as well as information about our major programs.