Health Promotion fosters a culture and environment that values health and wellness; empowers individuals and organizations to lead healthy lives; and improves the health, mission readiness and productivity of the military community. The mission of Health Promotion includes:
- Comprehensively guide and support installation leadership in fostering a culture and environment that values health, fitness, and wellness.
- Reducing and removing existing barriers to individuals and organizations adopting sustainable strategies toward leading healthy lifestyles.
- Enhance the health of Airmen and beneficiaries.
- Improve the mission readiness, productivity, and resilience of Airmen. Services Include:
- Assessment of population health needs and interests for the installation.
- Identifying high-risk units with suboptimal population health metrics.
- Providing unit commanders, first sergeants, and superintendents with actionable data on Airmen health.
- Collaborating with unit commanders to implement evidence-based unit health interventions that promote Airmen health, fitness, and mission performance.
- Implementing and evaluating health communication interventions that promote healthy behaviors.
- Integrating and implementing community outreach and prevention programs through actively participating in the installation Community Action Team.
- Building 509th Medical Group capacities to effectively deliver clinical interventions that address health behaviors.
- Body Composition measurements using the Bod Pod and In-Body
- Individual appointments for weight management, tobacco quit plans, sleep optimization and physical activity.
-Group education and information regarding nutrition, tobacco free living, sleep optimization, nutritional supplements, and physical activity at the worksite is available upon request. Please contact the Health Promotion Coordinator at 660-687-1199.
- Healthy lifestyle contests at worksite are available
- Exercise classes
- Exercise physiology guidance
The mission of Nutritional Medicine includes:
- Diabetes Management
- HTN
- High Cholesterol
- Food Allergies
- Weight Management for Adults, Adolescents, and Children
- Bariatric
Services include:
- BEST S.E.L.F. healthy weight class including lifestyle behaviors
- Patients who are medically referred for nutrition medicine diagnosis (pre-diabetes, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, digestive conditions (Crohn's disease, IBS, etc), nutritional deficiencies, infant and child nutritional conditions.
- Classes or lectures regarding various nutrition topics upon request
- Nutrition community/worksite events upon request: ie cooking classes, meals prep classes, commissary tours
For more information on the services available from the Health Promotion
Dietitian, call 660-687-DIET (3438).
