Chronic Disease Prevention Update
In This Issue
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Track at NACCHO Annual 2012
Webinar: Food Marketing 101
NACCHO Request for Applications
New Fact Sheets: The National Prevention Strategy and The Community Guide
Save the Date: 2012 Asthma Summit
Report Recommendations to Increase Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables
The Roots of Health Inequity
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Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Track at NACCHO Annual 2012 

Chronic disease (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, tobacco-related cancers), the leading cause of death in the United States, is gaining attention nationwide as its negative impact continues to increase over generations. Public health practice is shifting towards using evidence-based, community preventive health strategies, such as tobacco-free living, active living, and healthy eating, with an emphasis on reducing health disparities to combat chronic illnesses. To highlight this prevention-focused national strategic direction, NACCHO Annual 2012 will feature a track called "Chronic Disease Prevention and Control-Funding Prevention vs. Treatment." To learn more about this chronic disease-specific track, and to register for the conference, please visit www.nacchoannual.org. We hope to see you in Los Angeles, July 11-13, for NACCHO Annual 2012!
Webinar: Food Marketing 101
ASTHO, the Food Marketing Workgroup, and NPLAN present this webinar on food marketing that is targeted towards children. Presenters will discuss types of food marketing to children, policy options for dealing with marketing, evidence linking food marketing with children's poor diets and health, and the effectiveness of industry self-regulation. The webinar will be held Tuesday, June 19, from 3:30-4 PM EDT. Register here.

NACCHO Request for Applications:
Developing Capacity to Support
Diabetes Prevention and Control at the Community Level 

NACCHO is pleased to offer LHD diabetes prevention and control staff and their community partners this opportunity to attend a skill-building training in Atlanta, GA, in September 2012. Find out more about this opportunity by reading the full announcement here. Applications are due July 10, 2012.

New Fact Sheets: The National Prevention Strategy and The Community Guide
NACCHO's chronic disease team has recently published two fact sheets that provide more information on the National Prevention Strategy (NPS) and The Community Guide. The NPS is a comprehensive plan designed to increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life; view NACCHO's fact sheet on NPS here. The Community Guide is a collection of all the evidence-based findings and recommendations of the Community Preventive Services Task Force; view NACCHO's Community Guide fact sheet here.

Save the Date: 2012 Asthma Summit: Research to Practice  

Physicians, nurses, researchers, health educators, and policy-makers are invited to join California Breathing at the 2012 Asthma Summit in San Francisco this December. Learn about cutting edge research, interventions, and policies related to asthma and psychosocial stressors, ambient air pollution, genetics, obesity, goods movement, indoor air quality, health disparities, climate change, allergens, healthy homes, cleaning agents, and more. To register, click here.   

Report Recommendations to Increase Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables   

The Bipartisan Policy Center recently released a report calling on the public and private sectors to collaborate in creating healthy communities, with a focus on evidence-based practice. The report, Lots to Lose: How America's Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens Our Economic Future, includes strategies to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables in an effort to combat obesity and lower related healthcare costs. Learn more here

The Roots of Health Inequity 

NACCHO recently launched the Roots of Health Inequity, the first comprehensive web-based curriculum about the root causes of health inequity. The website offers five course units featuring interactive presentations and case studies, readings, videos, audio, and group-directed discussions. Use Roots of Health Inequity to orient staff and students, inform strategic planning processes, and develop an organizational culture committed to tackling health inequities. For more information, click here. 

Chronic Disease Prevention Toolkit

 

This edition's featured tool is the

Healthy Vending Machine Project Fact Sheet. The Alabama Healthy Vending Machine Project is a collaboration between the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services to provide healthier options in vending machines in state agencies. The goal of the project is to increase access to healthy foods and beverages and reduce or eliminate the availability of calorie dense, nutrient poor foods in public service venues. 

 

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.


NACCHO welcomes any tools or resources you would like to share with local health departments. To submit a tool to the Chronic Disease Prevention Toolkit, please contact Kelly Dawson.