Health and Fitness : Add your voice: more than 100 people have taken the Benton County Health Survey

The Benton County Public Health Deparment sponsored by Virginia Gay Hospital is asking you to assist them by sharing your opinion.

The survey is completely anonymous and can be taken by clicking this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BentonCountyPublicHealth

Your opinions will help shape our public health priorities for the coming year.

The Public Health Department is responsible for a wide variety of health related issues. These include:

1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.

2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.

3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.

4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.

5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

5. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.

8. Ensure competent public and personal health care workforces.

9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.

10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.

Volunteer members of the Benton County Public Health Board include:Kaitlin Emrich, Dan LaGrange, David Martin, Dr. Maggie Mangold, all from Vinton. Don Frese from Watkins and Kathy Janss from Keystone.

Again, to take the survey please use the following link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BentonCountyPublicHealth