Victory Electric Health Fair

[BroncoFan]

Mark your calendars! Victory Electric, along with Western Plains Medical Complex and Riverside Chiropractic will be hosting a community health fair on April 12 at the Civic Center. The health fair will be from 8:00a to noon, then Victory Electric Cooperative will hold its annual meeting.

[Sherry_Giskie]

What is a Health Fair? I've never heard of this.

[TexKan]

How many vendors ya got? Not that I can show up but gee I remember health fairs as being just a fun day!

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by Sherry_Giskie

What is a Health Fair? I've never heard of this.

I googled that question and found this on a Texas A&M website on how to plan a health fair.

Objectives of a Health Fair

A health fair is an event to:

* Increase health awareness by providing health screenings, activities, materials, demonstrations, and information;
* Increase awareness of local, state, and national health services and resources;
* Motivate participants to make positive health behavior changes;
* Provide immunizations for children and adults;
* Teach self-care practices;
* Identify topics and participants for future Extension educational health programs; and
* Establish Extension agents as a source for educational health programming in the county.

[TexKan]

Sherry you have probably seen and been to a Health fair - just didn't realize it. I have seen a table with blood pressure checks, a table with cholesterol checks and it's called a health fair. LOL

The good ones have all kinds of agencies there to not only provide you with some non committal monitoring in order to introduce you to their company. Or they are passing out flyers, brochures, pencils, magnets, etc - usually there are home health agencies, long term care agencies, medical equipment agencies, hospitals, registries, health districts, etc......... they are just kinda fun. They often look for employees at those things as well so health care folks look for health fares sometimes when job hunting. It never hurts to network. I'm sure that Victory has a health program of some sort revolving around "safety" - Plus it's a feather in any company's cap to host one - just good PR.