Promoting Healthy Communities
Working with individuals, communities, healthcare, schools, and worksites to help make Goodhue County a healthy place to live, learn, work and play. We promote wellness and behaviors that prevent disease.
Key Principles
- Upstream: Focus on prevention, such as healthy eating rather than cancer or heart disease
- Community Engagement: Share ownership of work through collaborations and partnerships
- Health Equity: Aim for the highest level of health for all residents
- Policy, System, and Environmental Change: Make healthy choices easy, safe, and affordable
- Evidence-Based: Choose interventions that have been shown to work
What We Do:
Health Assessment and Planning
Emergency Preparedness
Health Impact Assessment (HIA): Goodhue County Urban Fringe District HIA
Mental Health Awareness: Make It OK
Healthy Eating & Active Living: Live Well Goodhue County &
Live Healthy Red Wing
Tobacco-Free Living: Live Well Goodhue County
Traffic Safety: Toward Zero Deaths (TZD)