1125.310 - Office of Health Promotion (OHPm)
a) The Office of Health Promotion (OHPm)
addresses health and wellness issues by promoting and encouraging long-term
healthy behaviors. OHPm addresses chronic diseases, oral health, vision and
hearing, newborn screening, violence and injury prevention, and overdose
surveillance and response. OHPm also supports screening, early detection, and
appropriate intervention for non-communicable diseases and conditions. OHPm
programs play important roles in assessing the health of Illinois residents,
encouraging healthy lifestyles, and providing information, resources, and
referrals to those seeking to improve their health or to battle a chronic
disease. OHPm delivers financial and technical assistance to individuals and
providers in an effort to ensure that basic preventive health care is available
statewide. Working with the Department's laboratories, the Newborn Screening
Program follows up on disorders identified through testing. The Medical
Cannabis program operates the Medical Cannabis Patient Registry Program. OHPm
provides access to medical cannabis to patients with qualifying conditions
through the Medical Cannabis Patient Registry Program.
b) OHPm is composed of the Division of
Emerging Health Issues, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control,
Division of Community Health Prevention, and Division of Medical Cannabis. Each
of these units is responsible for administering a variety of key public health
programs primarily directed toward prevention and high-risk
reduction.
c) Information related
to OHPm prevention and wellness is available at
https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/prevention-wellness.html.
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