Carroll County Coalition For Public Health

April 5-11, 2010 is National Public Health Week. The theme is A Healthier America:  One Community at a Time. The American Public Health Association (APHA) has a broad mission to make America the healthiest nation in one generation.  Like all things in public health, that can only happen at the local level:  the community level.  We are joining APHA in asking you to champion public health by making healthy changes- big and small in your families, individual neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.  What does this look like?
•    Add more fruits and vegetables to your family’s diet.
•    Build a garden.
•    Walk or bike to a school or work once per week.
•    Carpool.
•    Make sure your child is up to date on immunizations.
•    Plant a tree.
•    Try to quit smoking again and again because practice makes perfect.
•    Cover your sneeze or cough.
•    Wash your hands.
•    Visit www.nhpha.org click on Advocate and click Bill Tracking Chart.  Select a Bill that is important to you and encourage your legislator to vote for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:  “The first wealth is health.”  If you have ever stood vigil at a sick child’s bedside or watched a loved one deteriorate from a preventable condition, you know what this means.
All of these individual and community level changes will add up to big health improvements for you and your community.  Make it is small, but make it count!

If you would like more information about NPHW, go to www.c3ph.org.

April 5-11, 2010 is National Public Health Week. The theme is A Healthier America:  One Community at a Time. The American Public Health Association (APHA) has a broad mission to make America the healthiest nation in one generation.  Like all things in public health, that can only happen at the local level;  the community level.  We are joining APHA in asking you to champion public health by making healthy changes- big and small in your families, individual neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.  What does this look like?  Add more fruits and vegetables to your family’s diet.  Build a garden.  Walk or bike to a school or work once per week.  Make sure your child is up to date on immunizations.  Try to quit smoking again and again because practice makes perfect.  Visit www.nhpha.org click on Advocate and click Bill Tracking Chart.  Select a Bill that is important to you and encourage your legislator to vote for it.  All of these individual and community level changes will add up to big health improvements for you and your community.  Make it is small, but make it count!

Scroll down to view the 2 minute video:  Healthiest Nation in One Generation

In cooperation with Northway Bank, the Carroll County Coalition for Public Health will be holding four more H1N1 clinics in the area.  The clinics are open for all employees, customers and general public.  The best way to protect yourself or your family members against H1N1 is still vaccination and we are still making vaccine available to people in Carroll County.  Visit one of four clinics at the Northway Banks or:  If in Northern Carroll County, call 356-5461 x 288 or in Southern Carroll County 569-2729 x 321.  Clinics are free and open to the public.

Free H1N1 Flu Clinics will be held at the following Northway Bank branches:

March 8, 2010  9:00am-11:00am
Northway Bank – West Ossipee
2385 White Mtn. Hwy
W. Ossipee, NH    03890

March 17, 2010  9:00am-10:30am
Northway Bank – Commercial Lending Center
White Mtn. Hwy
North Conway, NH    03860

March 17, 2010  11:00am-12:30pm
Northway Bank – Intervale
3278 White Mtn. Hwy
North Conway, NH    03860

March 17, 2010  2:00pm-3:30pm
Northway Bank – Conway Village
34 West Main St.
Conway, NH    03818