County health department responsible for preventing epidemics and the spread of disease, protecting against environmental hazards and injuries, promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors and responding to disasters and assisting communities in recovery. Providing services including birth certificates, death related records/permits, public facility health inspection, child passenger safety education, child passenger safety seats, blood pressure screening, HIV testing, lead poisoning screening, sexually transmitted disease screening, tuberculosis screening, blood tests, birth control counseling, contraception, pregnancy testing, adolescent/adult immunizations, childhood immunizations, WIC, septic system permits, an extreme cold warming center, and an extreme heat cooling center. McDonald County in Missouri