WOMEN, INFANTS & CHILDREN (WIC) IS A FEDERALLY-FUNDED NUTRITION EDUCATION PROGRAM.
WIC’s mission is to increase awareness among postpartum and breastfeeding women and parents/caretakers of participants age 1-5 years of the need to balance food intake and daily physical activity, to promote increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables and to increase awareness of the benefits of breastfeeding.
To download a PowerPoint document highlighting the 50th anniversary of WIC, click here.
You may apply for an Alabama vital record at the main Health Department site in downtown Mobile. It’s easy. Fill out an application at the site and give payment and application to the clerk. You may also download an application and fill it out beforehand.
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Restaurant and Food Establishment Program
The Inspection Services Department has environmental health specialists who perform restaurant and food establishment inspections on a routine basis to protect consumers from unsanitary conditions, educate food service employees and to prevent foodborne illnesses.
Each food service establishment must obtain a food permit from the Health Department each year. Any establishment, permanent or temporary, that offers for sale, any unpackaged food product or potentially hazardous packaged product to the public must have a current permit. This permit must be displayed in public view.
Inspection Services not only permits food establishments, but they also inspect and permit daycare centers, schools, jails, institutions, detention facilities, hotels and motels, spas, pools, camps, and body art facilities.
For consumer convenience, the Mobile County Health Department’s smartphone app “My MCHD Health Check” is available for download for free in the App Store and Google Play. Search “My MCHD Health Check” or use the following link to download the app — https://apps.myocv.com/share/a65536603. When you are “on the go” you can conveniently use the app to check restaurant rating scores.
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
What is the Healthy Communities project?
There are many things that contribute to health—eating a balanced diet, exercising, and visiting a doctor on a regular basis. But it is so much more than that. Population-level factors such as the physical, built, social, and policy environments can have a greater impact on health outcomes than individual behaviors and choices.
Program Overview
The Mobile County Health Department (MCHD) established the Healthy Communities project. The team is responsible for evaluating internal and external programs and policies, identifying weaknesses, and laying a foundation for serving Mobile County community members.
Mission
The team wants to help create a community where everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible. To create this community, we must address both upstream factors like social inequities, institutional inequities, and living conditions and downstream factors like risk behaviors, disease and injury, and mortality. We aim to do this by:
- Connecting with and listening to our community
- Building community partnerships
- Collecting and analyzing data to drive our mission forward
- Providing education, outreach, and supportive services to chronically underserved areas
- Advocating for program and policy decisions
- Strengthening the capacity for our community to create its own health future
The team provides support for our community to be well, get well and stay well.
For more information and community health data, please visit the Healthy Communities Project Hub: https://mchd-healthy-communities-mc-hd.hub.arcgis.com/
Awards & Accreditations
