Programs & Services: Community Health

Making the Healthiest State in the Nation!

WA state has been rated the tenth healthiest state in the nation.  Health promotion is a priority at Asotin County Health District.  Health education, good nutrition, increasing physical activity can improve your physical health, prevent chronic disease and improve emotional well being.

 

Prescription Pain-Reliever Abuse Among Teens

• To access this fact sheet online, go to reports and select Prevention

 

 

Parkinson's Disease: Also known as Parkinson Disease, PD, paralysis agitans, and shaking palsy is a gradually progressive, degenerative neurologic disorder which typically impairs the patient's motor skills, speech, writing, as well as some other functions.  Sufferers often have a fixed, inexpressive face, tremor at rest, slowing of voluntary movements (bradykinesia), an unusual posture, and muscle weakness.  In extreme cases there is a loss of physical movement (akinesia).  Parkinson's Disease is both chronic and progressive.  Chronic means long term, while progressive means it gradually gets worse.  1.5 million Americans suffer from the disease; 5 percent of 75,000 are under the age of 40. For more information click on the following links:  Parkinson's Disease Foundation   and    American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc.