What is physical health?

For this initiative, we define physical health as the overall condition of your body. Positive physical health habits can help decrease your stress, lower your risk of disease, and increase your energy. This includes physical activity, diet, and lifestyle behaviors.

  • 83 schools have health center on campus
  • 1 school uses Teledoc only
  • 17 schools have no health services
  • 44 schools provide HIV testing/ 57 do not provide HIV testing or information about testing is unknown

Why is Physical health important?

Incidence of heart diseases, cancers, COPD, stroke, and diabetes, maternal mortality, and HIV are overwhelming the Black community. When it comes to STDs, Black people accounted for 43% of the new HIV diagnoses in 2018 and 44% of the HIV-caused deaths.

Services may include:

  • Preventive and diagnostic care
  • Health education
  • Physical exams
  • STI and HIV testing
  • Health referrals
  • First aid
  • Treatment for physical injury
  • And more...