Community Health Promotion Education

Community Health: Provides health promotional activities and health education designed to reduce the incidence of chronic diseases (tobacco cessation, diabetes prevention, cancer prevention and screening etc.).

The Community Health Division is centered on the premise for communities making healthy choices to protect, promote, and improve health with a focus on addressing a wide variety of health issues throughout Palm Beach County. Programs include:

• Fetal Infant Mortality
• Florida Healthy Babies
• Child Abuse Death Review
• Diabetes Prevention
• Tobacco Cessation
• Healthiest communities

The division serves on many of our county local boards and state advisory boards and collaboration with a wide array of organizations including:

• Children Services Council
• Health Care District
• local schools (10) with our SWAT (Students Working Against Tobacco) program
• Parks and recreation
• Local transportation
• Health and Human Services
• Hunger relief
• American Heart Association
• Diabetes Prevention Coalition
• Higher education (colleges and universities) and k-12 schools

Public Health Residency Program

Staff provides health promotion and education to individuals, groups, communities, participates in community outreach events and with schools, faith-based organizations, county agencies, and public and private organizations.

Community health is also an extension of the Public Health Residency Program, where 2-4 residents are trained in public health and are certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine upon passing the board examination. Residents complete two years of training in public health preventive medicine, entered as PGY2 and graduate as PGY3.

The program is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).