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New Issue Brief: Overview of Comprehensive Tobacco Control Strategies
NACCHO has recently released this issue brief, which discusses the five components of a comprehensive tobacco control program and provides examples of how LHDs have practiced effective tobacco control strategies. The brief describes each of the five components in detail (community interventions; health communication interventions; cessation interventions; program administration and management; and surveillance and evaluation) and illustrates them with an LHD success story.
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Join Your State Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalitions
Every state has a comprehensive cancer control coalition that convenes to address the cancer burden in their respective states. LHDs are encouraged to join and participate in their state coalition. If you are not already a member, please contact Becky Johnson to get linked with your state coalition director. Find out more about what your state is doing to prevent and control cancer.
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Funding Opportunity: Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund
An exciting new funding opportunity has become available for communities that are working on childhood obesity prevention policies. Rapid response funding will support activities like grassroots organizing, media, coalition building, polling, and other public opinion research. Applications are accepted on a rolling, competitive basis. Begin the application process here.
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Webinar: The Public Health Approach to Active Living
Join the Public Health Institute and Active Living Research for an upcoming webinar, "Getting Physical: The Public Health Approach to Active Living" on Dec. 7 from 2:30-4 PM EST. Presenters will summarize the science behind the physical activity guidelines and discuss the role public health practitioners can play in facilitating more physical activity in their communities.
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Webinar: Using Systems Thinking and Tools to Solve Public Health Problems
Register for the upcoming Research to Reality (R2R) cyber-seminar, "Using Systems Thinking and Tools to Solve Public Health Problems," which will be held Dec. 14 from 3-4 PM EST. The webinar will focus on systems thinking and how parts within a whole influence one another. This is part of a larger, monthly cyber-seminar series offered by the National Cancer Institute that brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss, learn, and collaborate on moving research into practice.
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Safe Routes to School Report: Helping Communities Save Lives and Dollars
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership recently released a report, Safe Routes to School: Helping Communities Save Lives and Dollars. The report shares new data, dollar figures, facts, and local stories on benefits, including reducing busing costs, easing traffic congestion, lowering medical costs, and more. A fact sheet summarizing the report is also available.
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National Conference on Tobacco or Health
Individuals and organizations who work in the field of tobacco control and prevention are invited to submit an abstract for the 2012 National Conference on Tobacco or Health. The deadline for abstract submissions is Dec. 14.
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Chronic Disease Prevention Toolkit
 This edition's featured tool is Reversing the Trend in Childhood Obesity: Policies to Promote Healthy Kids and Communities. The National Conference of State Legislatures recently released this report, which focuses on legislation designed to reduce and prevent childhood obesity. The report highlights laws and policies passed in 2010 by legislative bodies increasingly interested promoting healthy living and the reduction of childhood obesity.
NACCHO's Chronic Disease Prevention Project has collaborated with national organizations and the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in an effort to connect local and state public health practitioners with publications, tools, and other resources related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
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