By Beverleigh H Piepers
One important function of public health departments consists of educating the public about good health practices. Type 2 diabetes is a major health concern; by 2050 one-third of adults in the United States alone could be diabetic. The disease is preventable with information designed to help people change their unhealthy habits. Getting out the word to large numbers of people could be likened to campaigns of immunizations that made smallpox a thing of the past and today help to control the number of new cases of polio and other infectious diseases. In the past, health departments
