The Mecklenburg County Health Department set as one of its goals to expand its ability to accurately and effectively communicate life-changing and lifesaving public health information, thus arming members of this community with the knowledge necessary to improve their health. 

To achieve this, the Health Department, through its Health Communications Team, has established grass-roots connections with community-level organizations, health care professionals and private and non-profit partners to devise the most effective means of delivering research based, audience-specific and culturally sensitive health messages.

Members of the Department's Health Communications Team also bring to the table expertise in health communications, health education, video production, marketing, journalism and media relations.

• "ABLE - All Bodies Like Exercise!"
  fitness program for those over 50
    
• "Katrina Recovery"
  documentary, filmed in the spring of 2007, demonstrates the work being done in the Gulf Coast and the needs that have emerged in the past year and a half since Hurricane Katrina
   
• "Katrina Spring"
  video chronicles the Katrina disaster recovery efforts of volunteers and students from the schools of Nursing and Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
   
• "Last Clean Chance" 
  science fantasy thriller teaching proper hand washing technique
   
• "Prevention of MRSA in the Athletic Setting"
  instructional video reviewing cause and prevention of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
   
• "Sanitation in the Child Care Setting"
  hand washing and hygiene instructional video
   
• "Salud y Vida"
  Spanish-Language health issues program, program schedule
   
• Stroke Prevention
  primary and secondary stroke prevention education message

Reproductions of some videos are available, for a small fee, on VHS and DVD.  > Video Order Form