DeKalb County Board of Health

About

Your public health resource for DeKalb County, Georgia!

Story

The Board of Health works to protect and improve the health of those who live, work and play in DeKalb County. The Board of Health continually strives to meet the varied health needs of all the residents of DeKalb County. However, we know that creating healthier communities involves what we all do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.


COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
This page is monitored daily by DeKalb County Board of Health. We support the discussion of free speech and engagement with others, however we reserve the right to remove anything posted to this page that we deem to be offensive, including:

• Violent, obscene, profane, hateful, suggestive or racist posts, links or images
• Comments that threaten or defame any person or organization
• Off-topic posts by a single user
• Repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple users
• Anything else DeKalb County Board of Health deems to be inappropriate

Mission

-To promote wellness through care, education and example.
-To empower communities to develop and implement their own wellness strategies.
-To collaborate with community partners to provide access to quality, affordable and culturally competent healthcare and education.
-To create centers of excellence to improve health outcomes.
-To build and maintain a committed and well-trained staff.