2008 Woodie Awards
Wellness Fair educates campus on health issues
Damien Chambers
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: News
Student Health Services hosted the 2008 Wellness Fair March 28. It promoted student awareness of health issues facing the community and provided information about available treatments and ways to avoid illness.
Booths strewn with free health care items filled Sutton Lobby. Offerings included sunscreen and chap-stick, as well as pamphlets, surveys and other information regarding health and how to make wiser health choices.
The fair was run by the Departments of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and Human Performance and Exercise Science at Milligan College with contributions from area agencies and ministries.
Tasha Kennedy, a senior nursing student, worked the skin cancer booth.
"The Wellness Fair takes place to promote better health and to raise awareness of various health factors," said Kennedy.
Kennedy was "shocked" at how many students came by the booth and said they had once suffered from skin cancer themselves. According to Kennedy, one in every seven people will contract the disease.
Of the many health factors presented at the fair there were booths for nutrition, skin disease or skin cancer, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), as well as many others.
"It's hard to say if the fair was a success or not," said Vicki Carroll, the resident nurse at Milligan, "since we cannot keep an accurate account of how many students participated."
One of the exhibitors at the fair estimated that approximately 200 students visited her table. Other exhibitors said the turnout was better than last year's.
According to Carroll, Mountain Area Donor Services had 14 people express interest in being an organ donor compared to the two that they had a year ago. "One person receiving a life saving organ donation would define a successful fair," said Carroll.
Attendee and freshman Rachiel Foulks said, "It's good that the school is doing this because the fact that we are all young and feel good at the age we are now doesn't mean that we're making healthy choices."
Booths strewn with free health care items filled Sutton Lobby. Offerings included sunscreen and chap-stick, as well as pamphlets, surveys and other information regarding health and how to make wiser health choices.
The fair was run by the Departments of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and Human Performance and Exercise Science at Milligan College with contributions from area agencies and ministries.
Tasha Kennedy, a senior nursing student, worked the skin cancer booth.
"The Wellness Fair takes place to promote better health and to raise awareness of various health factors," said Kennedy.
Kennedy was "shocked" at how many students came by the booth and said they had once suffered from skin cancer themselves. According to Kennedy, one in every seven people will contract the disease.
Of the many health factors presented at the fair there were booths for nutrition, skin disease or skin cancer, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), as well as many others.
"It's hard to say if the fair was a success or not," said Vicki Carroll, the resident nurse at Milligan, "since we cannot keep an accurate account of how many students participated."
One of the exhibitors at the fair estimated that approximately 200 students visited her table. Other exhibitors said the turnout was better than last year's.
According to Carroll, Mountain Area Donor Services had 14 people express interest in being an organ donor compared to the two that they had a year ago. "One person receiving a life saving organ donation would define a successful fair," said Carroll.
Attendee and freshman Rachiel Foulks said, "It's good that the school is doing this because the fact that we are all young and feel good at the age we are now doesn't mean that we're making healthy choices."
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