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Every day for the past month, Canton resident Jack Fussell, 62, has laced up his running shoes and pounded the Georgia pavement, covering about 15 miles each day. But when he's finished, he doesn't turn around and go home. He's aiming for California.

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Man Runs to Fight Alzheimer's DPH Online Store
DPH Responds to Winter Tornado Community Partners Honored Group Aims to Boost Health Literacy Burn Victim Shares Story of Survival App Monitors Heart Rate

Fussell is running across the

country to raise money and

awareness for Alzheimer's

disease, which plagued his

father before his death in

June 2000. But his run is

more than a wacky fundraiser

or a publicity stunt. It's the culmination of more than a

Jack Fussell at 272 pounds.

decade of extraordinary change to his health and his life. It wasn't

long ago that he was 100 pounds overweight and couldn't take a

short hike without stopping to rest.

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comes after several months of concerns with DPH's previous vendor, which struggled to accept and fulfill orders due to "significant and

lasting" inventory issues according to DPH Director of

Communications Ryan Deal.

"We catalogued complaints ranging from product back-orders to difficulty in maneuverability of the vendor's website," Deal said. "The vendor fell far short of our expectations and last week we selected a new vendor which we believe can meet our demand for quality products."

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Tornado Tears Through North Georgia

PHEVENTS
Lunch 'n' Learn Heart Disease in Women: Prevention is the First Step
Feb. 13 Noon
2 Peachtree, Third Floor EOC Instructor: Dr. Ijeoma Isiadinso

DPH helps respond to disaster
Recovery efforts continue in Adairsville, the focal point of devastation wrought by an EF-3 tornado and accompanying storms Jan. 30.

Various media

Lunch 'n' Learn

sources in Georgia

Nutrition for Heart Health: The reported on the 160

Mediterranean Diet Feb. 20

mile-per-hour winds A convenience store employee collects what he can

that toppled

from the rubble of where the business once stood at

Noon

structures, tossed

the intersection of Cherry Street and U.S. 41 after the

2 Peachtree, Third Floor EOC vehicles and wiped

deadly tornado hit downtown Adairsville Jan. 30. Photo courtesy of Erin Gray, Neighbor Newspapers.

out power service for

Lunch 'n' Learn: Reducing the thousands. Two died

Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in and many others

Women

were injured in the storms that caused an estimated $75 million in

Feb. 27 1 p.m.

damage.

Clairmont Lab Training Room



1749 Clairmont Road, Atlanta

Instructor: Dr. Ijeoma Isiadinso Community Partners Honored at

Free Fitness Classes DPH offers group exercise classes

Celebrate Health North Georgia Event

every day at 2 Peachtree. Classes

include dance, kickboxing, yoga, For every one dollar

walking and more. Classes are spent on the

open on a first come, first served prevention of chronic

basis and there is no need to pre- health conditions,

register. Download the monthly approximately $21 in

schedule.

future medical costs

are saved. This was the

Submit Calendar Entries to communications@dhr.state.ga.us

message from organizers of January's Celebrate Healthy

North Georgia event at

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Lanier Technical College in Forsyth

Access Intermediate Queries Feb. 14
1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Access Form & Report Design

County. District 2 Public Health, along

James Emery, MPH, from the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Public Health, discusses

with community

obesity at a Celebrate Health North Georgia event

partners within the 13- as colleague Carolyn Crump, Ph.D., looks on. Photo

county district, came

courtesy of Dave Parrish, director of marketing for Lanier Technical College.

together to celebrate

Feb. 19

and recognize 21

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

organizations that have implemented programs to improve health in



their communities.

Access Advanced Queries

Feb. 22

"Twenty-one organizations were chosen from nominations from our

10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

13 counties to represent the savings that can be realized by

prevention," said Anderson Flen, health promotions coordinator for

Access Tables & Database District 2 Public Health. "This also shows that there are a lot of

Design

people, businesses and organizations working to improve health, as

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well as access to health and wellness resources in our area."

9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

For employees not at 2 Peachtree, classes can be attended remotely, but employees must be registered 48
hours prior to class. Register for all classes through SABA (2 Peachtree attendees register for "Instructor-Led" and remote attendees register for "Virtual" classes). View monthly
training calendars on PHIL. Contact Lisa Miller if you have
questions.
Look for Excel classes in March and Word & PowerPoint classes
in April.


Group Aims to Boost Health Literacy in Georgia
Pop quiz: do you know which immunizations you need and where to get them? What about how to interpret a health insurance policy or how much exercise you need each week? The questions seem simple but finding the answers often is not, especially when they involve navigating the convoluted U.S. health care system or wading through the flood of health tips media spout.

Submit Calendar Entries to communications@dhr.state.ga.us
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Knowing how to find the answers to such questions is a part of basic health literacy, an area that is seriously lacking for many Americans. But a group of public health advocates are working to help change that in Georgia.

W-2s list cost of providing a health plan
Obama Administration Revises Contraception Mandate


Burn Victim Shares Story of Survival, Promotes Awareness

Adverse Drug Reactions Identified It only took a few moments for a

by Phone

burn to change Lori Mabry's life.

People With Mental Illness More Likely to Be Smokers, Study Finds
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As a teenager in Greenville, S.C., Mabry was riding with her friends in a Ford Mustang convertible when the driver lost control of the car. Not wearing a seat belt, she was tossed out of the car as it flipped over. Mabry landed underneath it, with the car's catalytic converter sitting across her stomach.

Lori Mabry, center, with burn survivor Kyhrie Harris, left, and Dennis Gardin,
executive director of the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.

Editor Nicole Price

"I was basically lying under the car cooking," she said.

Content Coordinator Connie F. Smith
Sr. Graphic Designer Ginny Jacobs
Interim Web Developer Jimmy Clanton, Jr.
Editorial & Design Team Tammy Beasley Carrie Gann Eric Jens Nancy Nydam Sandra Roberts Suleima Salgado
Director of Communications Ryan Deal


App Monitors Heart Rate
The Instant Heart Rate app allows users to instantly and accurately monitor heart rate during exercise to optimize performance and track progress. The accuracy of the app is constantly tested by fitness coaches, nurses, doctors, EMTs and app users.
Simply press gently with your fingertip to cover the camera lens completely. Using just the camera on your smartphone to detect the pulse from your fingertip, the app will beep while showing a real-time chart of every heartbeat. The app also features a continuous or auto-stop mode, heart rate zones, one week data storage and tags, and the abilities to export data and share on Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to download.
Georgia Public Health Observances | February 2013

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

Low Vision Awareness Month
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February is Heart Month

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