Welcome to Asotin County Health District
The mission of Asotin County Health District is to prevent disease, disability and premature death, to protect and promote the health and quality of the environment in which people can be healthy and to promote healthy lifestyles.
We are here to help you. Please use this web site to help you find resources, learn more about being healthy and conduct business.


Children's Immunizations available by appointment:
Thursday(s) 8:30am - 4:30pm
call 509-758-3344.
Public Transportation
509-758-3567; office hours Monday thru Friday,
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tobacco Compliance
Teens
Prescription Pain-Reliever Abuse Among Teens.
Immunizations
Parents - Keep your children's immunizations up-to-date...get a schedule here.
SUN PROTECTION
For more information .......click here
- Use sunscreen with SPF (Sun Protection Factor) 15 or higher
- Try to avoid the sun between 10am and 4 pm
- Wear sun-protective clothing
- Seek shade whenever possible
- There is no safe way to tan.
- Some individual characteristics that are risk factors for skin cancer include: click here
- ACS sun basics include, Slip, Slop, Slap
- Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the US. About 1 in 5 Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer at some point in their lives.
- Receiving one or two blistering sunburns before the age of 18 at least doubles an individual's risk for developing melanoma.
- In 2007, Idaho's Melanoma rater was 23.3 cases per 100,000 person years.
- Idaho had the highest melanoma death rate nationally from 2001-2005 - 26% higher than the US average
- For People born in 2005, 1 in 55 will be diagnosed with melanoma - nearly 30 times the rate for people born in 1930.
for more information click here
Tobacco Prevention & Control Program
The District's Tobacco Prevention & Control Program works at the community level to prevent and control tobacco use in Asotin County. Click here for more information.
Communicable Diseases
We offer the following services: immunizations, referrals, communicable disease information and tracking, TB testing and follow up, HIV testing and counseling, syringe exchange for IV drug users, pandemic flu information and West Nile virus information. Click here for more information.
Asotin County Health District is a member of WSALPHO
(Washington State Association of Public Health Officials) which can be found at www.wsalpho.org.


