Our Mission
To empower individuals and communities to preserve and protect
their health and to improve the health status of Harvey County by preventing disease and promoting health.
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- Lead
screening—Lead is a highly toxic substance which can
cause a wide range of health problems. Both adults and children
can suffer from the effects of lead poisoning, but childhood
lead poisoning is much more frequent. Over the many years
since we have known about the hazards of lead, tens of millions
of children have suffered its health effects. Even today
there are still at minimum more than four hundred thousand
children under the age of six who have too much lead in
their blood.
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Click here
to take a quiz to find out if your kids need to have a lead
screening test.
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For additional information click here.
- Blood
Pressure Checks
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Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by the blood to the
walls of the blood vessels. Unless indicated otherwise,
blood pressure refers to the pressure in the large arteries
delivering blood to body parts other than the lungs. Blood
pressure values are universally stated in millimeters of
mercury (mmHg).
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Typical values for a resting, healthy adult human are approximately
120 mmHg systolic and 80 mmHg diastolic (written as 120/80
mmHg, and spoken as "one twenty over eighty"),
with large individual variations. These measures of blood
pressure are not static, but undergo natural variations
from one heartbeat to another or throughout the day (in
a circadian rhythm); they also change in response to stress,
nutritional factors, drugs, or disease.
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Click here
to learn more about how to keep blood pressure at a healthy
level.
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Harvey County employee physicals.
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(316) 283-1637 — (800) 414-4244
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