The Chronic Disease Prevention Team is part of the Health Education and Promotion Unit of the Jefferson County Health Department in Louisville, Kentucky. They offer preventive services related to cardiovascular disease and diabetes, including a variety of Health and Wellness Classes .
Education is important in preventing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Learning more about diet, exercise, tobacco use and other lifestyle choices, and modifying your behavior accordingly, can also help to control and treat these diseases in order to reduce the risk of complications. The Health Department is teaming up with the Kentucky Department of Public Health again this year to offer free mammograms and clinical breast exams to women over age 40. Here in Jefferson County the effort is being spearheaded by a coalition of the Health Department, the Visiting Nurse's Association, Jewish Hospital's Healthy Lifestyle Centers, the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, and the Louisville and Jefferson County Partnership for Cancer Control. Free mammograms and clinical breast exams will be offered at health centers and at the Bashford Manor, Jefferson and Oxmoor Malls. Any woman age 40 or over who does not have health insurance and who has not had a mammogram in the past 12 months is eligible for a free mammogram and clinical breast exam.