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Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention
Provides primary prevention
education services and case management services to lead burdened
children to prevent and/or eliminate lead absorption and lead
poisoning as a result of environmental exposure.
Children
Special Health Care Services
Provides medical, social,
psychological, and financial assistance to families with children
with special health needs. This includes assessment, referral
for diagnostic evaluation and specialty clinics, care coordination,
outreach and advocacy.
Communicable
Disease Control and Surveillance
Provides coordination
of disease reporting, initiation of individual disease investigation
and follow-up, and outbreak investigation and control measures.
Community
Health Assessment
Provides for the regular and systematic
collection, surveillance and analysis of statistics on health
system and health status, community health needs and resources,
environmental quality and the interrelationships between the
environment and human health. This information is provided
to community stakeholders to achieve public awareness, develop
interventions to respond to health risks, disease, injury and
epidemics.
Community
Health Promotion
Provides Cardiovascular Risk Screening
to high-risk populations and community health promotion activities
that address health risks of the population.
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Provides
preventive treatment and education services, for eligible children
and adults. A dental health fluoride program is offered through
the schools.
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Early
On
Provides coordination of social, health and educational
services that will promote the development of infants and toddlers
with special needs.
Hearing
and Vision
Provides hearing and vision screening in the
schools and referral services for preschool and school-aged
children.
HIV
Counseling and Testing
Provides an anonymous and confidential
system for individuals to obtain HIV counseling and testing
services.
Immunizations
Provides
immunizations for infants, children, and adults with special
emphasis on the pediatric population, including efforts to increase
the immunization coverage levels of children birth to three years
of age.
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Child Outreach, Enrollment and Coordination
Provides outreach
to uninsured pregnant women and families with children to inform
them of available health insurance coverage, assistance with
enrollment, accessing care, keeping health care appointments,
engaging community partners to assist in these efforts and
coordinating community outreach and enrollment efforts to assure
early and regular health care services to this population.
Maternal
Infant Health Advocacy Services
Provides services to high
risk, low income pregnant women and infants to get them into
care and assure that health care services are maintained. This
program addresses the social, health, economic and personal
well being of pregnant women and infants.
Maternal
and Infant Support Services
Provides non-medical services
consisting of information, education, counseling and referral
in the areas of health behaviors and practices, nutrition and
social work; transportation; and case management to reduce
infant mortality and morbidity.
School
Immunizations
Provides a monitoring system for children's
immunization records for schools and determines the exclusion
from school of children who are underimmunized, in accordance
with the law. Vaccine requirements, information and enforcement
activities for school enterers are provided.
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Transmitted Disease
Provides reporting, surveillance,
clinical services, laboratory services, sexual partner notification
and education services to prevent and control sexually transmitted
diseases.
Smoking
Reduction Program
Provides for the facilitation of the
Wayne County Smoking and Tobacco Intervention Coalition. Coalition
activities are targeted at tobacco reduction issues and events.
Summer
Food Program
Provides free lunches to Wayne County children
in low-income areas.
Tuberculosis
Control
Provides reporting, surveillance, medical inpatient
and outpatient treatment of tuberculosis cases and their contacts,
Direct Observed Therapy, contact investigation and information
and education.
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Distribution
Distribution of child and adult vaccines
to Wayne County Department of Public Health Centers and participating
Vaccine for Children private providers.
WIC
Food Program
Provides supplemental food coupons, nutrition
counseling and education for pregnant and breast-feeding
women and their children 0 - 5 years who qualify.
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