Healthy Community

Health starts long before illness -- in our homes, neighborhoods, schools, and jobs.  With chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes and asthma threating our physical and financial well-being, the Douglas County Health Department is focused on ensuring the places that touch are daily lives are ones where "the healthy choice is the easy choice."

We are working to achieve this in several ways:

1.  We are partnering with Live Well Omaha and many other organizations to increase the opportunities Douglas County residents have for eating healthy foods and being active.  To learn more about this effort, please click here.

2.  We are providing decision-makers with the information they need to better understand how different options are likely to effect health.  To learn more about how we are doing this using Health Impact Assessments, please click here. 

For more information on this topic, please visit the following:

• CDC's Healthy Community Design Initiative -- http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces
• Nebraska Physical Activity and Nutrition State Plan -- http://dhhs.ne.gov/publichealth/Pages/hew_hpe_nafh_stateplan.aspx