Air Quality Awareness Week highlights resources that increase air quality awareness and encourages people to take action and incorporate air quality knowledge into their daily living.
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Kacey Schmitt, DHEC Director of Social Work, along with Lenora Talley, DHEC Upstate Social Work Manager, and Tamika Melette, Lowcountry Social Work Manager, presented the Ruth G. McCall Public Health Social Worker of the Year Award to Hannah Eaton, Lowcountry Maternal Child Health (MCH) Social Worker at the Social Work Day celebration in March.
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National Public Health Week (NPHW) takes place April 1-7 this year, and this year’s theme is “Protecting, Connecting and Thriving: We Are All Public Health.”
Public health is more than just health care. It includes building communities free from pollution, with safe food and water and strong personal relationships.
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This Women’s History Month we are featuring current and former DHEC employees who have made an impact in our state.
Today we feature, Shirley James, South Carolina’s first Nurse Practitioner.
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DHEC’s Division of Injury and Substance Abuse Prevention (DISAP) is joining others across the country to promote National Poison Prevention Week.
In 2024, National Poison Prevention Week is March 17-23, 2024. National Poison Prevention Week raises awareness of poison prevention nationwide during the third full week of March every year. The week is an opportunity to highlight the dangers of poisonings for people of all ages and promote community involvement in poisoning prevention.
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Live Healthy S.C. 