Preventative Care

Preventative care is one of the most important actions you can take to stay healthy! Preventative care includes seeking healthcare services while you are healthy to prevent disease in the future. Preventative care helps catch disease earlier, reduces the risk of injury and illness, and can help prevent expensive health care bills down the line.  

• Vaccines
• Family Planning Clinics: Offer a variety of services for men and women including blood pressure checks, diabetes screenings, tobacco cessation, STI testing, regardless of how much money you do or do not have. 
• Sexual health/STDs: Offers educational resources, data, and information on case management. 
• Colorectal Cancer Screening: Aims to help eligible North Dakotans pay for colorectal cancer screenings. The website has information on eligibility requirements, testing, and prevention.   
• Prostate Cancer Awareness 
• FQHCs and local public health: Community-based clinics distributed across the state that provides comprehensive primary care and preventive care, including health, oral, and mental health/substance abuse services to persons of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay or health insurance status.  
• Who should be screened for Lung Cancer (CDC)  
  • Then include where to schedule a lung cancer screening?
• Injury Prevention