CSREES Health Program

[Partnership]NIFA/USDA partner with the National Physical Activity Plan to implement local plans

14 Jul 2010 19:41:51 GMT

[Resource]CDC data brief: Hypertension, High Serum Total Cholesterol and Diabetes Prevalence in US adults, 1999-2006

9 Jul 2010 19:49:23 GMT

[PARTNERSHIP]NIFA/USDA partner with the National Physical Activity Plan to implement local plans

7 Jul 2010 21:11:50 GMT

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is a member of the USDA partnership with the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan. The U.S. National Physical Activity Plan, released May 3, 2010, is a comprehensive set of policies, programs, and initiatives that aims to increase physical activity in all segments of the American population. The plan is the product of a private-public sector collaborative. Hundreds of organizations are working together to change the nation’s communities in ways that will enable every American to be sufficiently physically active. The plan, organized around eight societal sectors, focuses on initiatives that aim to increase physical activity. Its ultimate goal is to improve health, prevent disease and disability, and enhance quality of life. This goal aligns closely with the NIFA strategic objective, “To Improve the Nation’s Nutrition and Health.” The USDA partnership includes NIFA, the Food and Nutrition Service , the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, and the Forest Service . Each of these USDA agencies brings unique expertise and resources with the common goal of increasing physical activity and improving the health of Americans. In particular, NIFA promotes the physical activity of individuals and their families through education, research, and outreach. Through these efforts, NIFA, working with its land-grant universities and the Cooperative Extension System, can effectively contribute to the plan’s recommendations in one or more of the eight societal sectors: • Business and Industry • Education • Health Care • Mass Media • Parks, Recreation, and Fitness and Sports • Public Health • Transportation, Land Use, and Community Design • Volunteer and Nonprofit Contact Shirley Gerrior, NIFA national program leader in the Families, 4-H, and Nutrition staff for additional information.

[EVENT] NCHS National Conference on Health Statistics, August 16-18, 2010

17 May 2010 19:54:25 GMT

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)—an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—is pleased to invite you to attend its 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics. The conference will be held Monday through Wednesday, August 16–18, 2010, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Past NCHS conferences have offered workshop sessions describing the agency’s activities in data collection, analysis, and dissemination. This year, we’re excited to host a conference that will draw on research topics affecting health-related activities today and will serve as a forum for addressing future health topics. The new conference format has been designed to attract the most knowledgeable and influential professionals in the area of health statistics. Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., Director of CDC, Robert Groves, Ph.D., Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, and Michael Wolfson, Ph.D., Assistant Chief Statistician (recently retired) of Statistics Canada, will address the conference, along with many other esteemed speakers. The 3-day event is shaping up to secure NCHS’s position as a premiere statistical and government agency. This year also promises to be particularly exciting because NCHS will be celebrating 50 years as a statistical agency. We’re planning a number of activities that highlight and celebrate our accomplishments over the past 50 years. NCHS staff—knowledgeable in all areas of program infrastructure—will provide overviews of each of the Center’s surveys and other major data collection systems and will discuss in-depth the analyses of the collected data. As at past NCHS conferences, we will offer computer classrooms for hands-on data manipulation. An entire day is being devoted to these applied learning sessions, along with several educational workshops.

[EVENT] 30th Lillian Fountain Smith Conference for Nutrition Educators, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, June 12-13, 2008.

17 May 2010 19:42:09 GMT

Lillian Fountain Smith Conference This is the 32nd Annual Conference for Nutrition Educators Nutrigenomics: Nutrition Can Help You Fit Into Your Genes Thursday June 10th and Friday June 11th, 2010 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; CPEU Credit: 10.0 hr. Marriott Hotel 350 East Horsetooth Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 Purpose The program is designed to provide participants with the most current, objective, and authoritative information available in selected areas of human nutrition. The speakers are invited to participate in the conference based on nationally-recognized contributions to nutrition research or practice. Please register with the “Online Registration” button on the left. The LFSC is only taking online registrations.

[RESOURCE] American Public Health Association and Centers for Disease Control and prevention partner to publish America Breathing Easier. This publication tells the story of CDC's successful National Asthma Control Program and the many state and local efforts to ease the burden of asthma www.cdc.gov/asthma/.

16 Mar 2009 13:23:35 GMT

American Public Health Association and Centers for Disease Control and prevention partner to publish America Breathing Easier. This publication tells the story of CDC's successful National Asthma Control Program and the many state and local efforts to ease the burden of asthma www.cdc.gov/asthma/.

CDC's Injury Center recently announced several new resources to support efforts to reduce injuries among children.

Protect the Ones You Love: Child Injuries Are Preventable is a new initiative designed to raise parents' awareness about the leading causes of child injury and how they can be prevented.

CDC Childhood Injury Report: Patterns of Unintentional Injuries among 0-19 Year-olds in the United States, 2000-2006 is a data report providing an overview of unintentional injuries related to drowning, falls, fires or burns, transportation, poisoning, and suffocation, among others. Results are presented by age group and gender, as well as the geographic distribution of injury death rates by state.

A new video captures highlights of a December meeting looking at how policy, communications and media outreach, and national and local programs can be used to empower parents in their efforts to protect children.

Community Health Status Indicators Report Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) from The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with data from every US county covers 1994 to 2006 and provide public health officials, partners, policy-makers and the public with a snapshot of the health status of a community.

[EVENT] Exercise and Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging is a valuable resource for the physical activity, aging, and public health fields for both researchers and practitioners.

23 Feb 2009 10:06:56 -0600

[EVENT] Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutrition, 25th Annual Symposium, “The Seven Wonders of Wellness.” Scottsdale, Arizona, April 17-19, 2009.

23 Feb 2009 10:04:14 -0600

[EVENT] 137th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, November 7-11, 2009

23 Feb 2009 09:57:39 -0600

[EVENT] Society for Nutrition Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 11-15, 2009

16 Jan 2009 12:34:25 GMT

[PARTNERSHIP] CSREES partners with NIA Collaborative Initiative to share resources and together improve older Americans’

16 Jan 2009 13:29:24 -0600

[RESOURCE] Public Policy and Aging Report. Summer, 2008. Looks at the Aging Service Network, its mandate and increasing responsibilities

16 Jan 2009 13:23:45 -0600

[EVENT] Fourth Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium: from Birthplace to Workplace, Greensboro, NC, March 26 - 27, 2009

16 Jan 2009 13:22:16 -0600

[EVENT] Integrated Competitive Programs Grantsmanship Workshop, presented by USDA-CSREES, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 9-10, 2009

16 Jan 2009 13:19:26 -0600

[EVENT] Understanding and Modifying Stress: a Wellness Approach, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, February 5-6 2009

16 Jan 2009 13:18:41 -0600

[RESOURCE] 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans

2 Dec 2008 10:04:38 -0600

2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Describe the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans.

[EVENT] Society for Nutrition Education Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA July 11-15, 2009

2 Dec 2008 10:03:14 -0600

[EVENT] Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE), Denver, CO, October 17 - 20, 2009

2 Dec 2008 10:02:41 -0600

[PARTNERSHIP] Steps to a HealthierUS

2 Dec 2008 09:52:51 -0600

Steps to a HealthierUS

CSREES recently established a cooperative partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct complementary programs and activities in Steps-funded communities served by the Cooperative Extension System (CES). The Steps to a HealthierUS initiative advances the HealthierUS goal of helping Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives. Through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Steps initiative operates a cooperative agreement program office (Steps Program) that provides funding to support evidence-based community interventions in 40 communities nationwide. The programs focus on reducing the burden of diabetes, obesity and asthma and address three related risk behaviors—physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use. Steps program emphasis, along with its partnerships and community presence, closely aligns with the CSREES strategic goal to improve the nation's nutrition and health. The CSREES/CES partnership, with Step Program funding, results in many services and programs that benefit local and rural communities. The Steps Program aims to adopt some of USDA's promising educational activities and work with CSREES to replicate model programs in Steps-funded communities. The cooperative partnership also provides an opportunity for CES to work closely with Steps communities, providing subject expertise and educational materials. Additionally, both entities will explore opportunities to collaborate on future evaluation activities.

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[RESOURCE] Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity, an online training course. CDC. Trains public health professionals in the basics of social marketing with an emphasis on implementing nutrition and physical activity social marketing programs.

27 Oct 2008 14:13:08 -0600

[EVENT] Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging, Chapel Hill, NC Sept 15-16, 2009

16 Oct 2008 11:40:56 -0600

[IN FOCUS] The FCS Administrator's Directory provides easy access to names and contact information for all family and consumer science administrators.

15 Oct 2008 13:41:35 -0600

[RESOURCE] Healthfinder.gov, a Web site designed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help people stay healthy. Its interactive health management tools make information resources accessible and easy to use for consumers and professionals

8 Oct 2008 11:12:32 -0600

[RESOURCE] CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion provide printed Weight Management Research to Practice educational materials for the public health practitioner to use with clients or to disseminate to the public.

7 Oct 2008 10:38:02 -0600

[RESOURCE] University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension promotes physical activity with brochure, Fitness Indulgence. It's about increasing your enthusiasm for physical activity by changing how you think about it.

7 Oct 2008 10:36:30 -0600

[In Focus] Nutrition and Exercise Science Programs at the Land-Grant Universities: Assessment

7 Oct 2008 09:58:11 -0600

Nutrition and Exercise Science Programs at the Land-Grant Universities: Assessment

This is an exciting time for the academic and professional fields related to health, nutrition, and exercise science. Better understanding of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, coupled with nationwide attention on such health problems as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis present many opportunities and challenges to university campuses. To meet these challenges, many of the land-grant universities will need to change, modify, or enhance existing nutrition programs to include an exercise science emphasis or option as well as health education and health promotion program areas. An assessment of the number and types of nutrition and exercise programs currently in place at the undergraduate and graduate levels benchmarks successful programs from a national perspective. A summary report and program guidance is available and should be of interest to nutrition department chairs, family and consumer science program directors, and faculty in nutrient, kinesiology, and related fields.

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The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Diseases and Conditions Index (DCI). This Web-based health index gives you a quick and easy way to get complete and dependable information about heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders.

7 Oct 2008 09:23:31 -0600

[Event] American College of Sports Medicine 13th Annual Health & Fitness Summit , Atlanta, Georgia, March 25-28, 2009

7 Oct 2008 09:20:34 -0600

[EVENT] The 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Cultivating Healthy Communities, National Harbor, MD, February 23-25, 2009.

25 Aug 2008 17:46:04 -0600

[EVENT] NIH Summit, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, December 16-18, 2008.

11 Aug 2008 13:47:05 -0600

[RESOURCE] SMART Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data and Prevalence Tables, CDC. Includes data from 2002 through 2007 by state as well as 298 counties.

8 Aug 2008 10:35:17 -0600

[EVENT] Diabetes Symposium and Workshop - 2008, Bridging the Gap with Education, Charleston, WV, September 10-12, 2008.

16 Jul 2008 11:16:39 -0600

[RESOURCES] Four New Resources on the CSREES Health Program page

14 Jul 2008 09:44:04 -0600

Extreme Heat: Effects to Children and Pregnant Women, EPA.

Children's Health and the Aftermath of Floods, EPA.

Health Risks of Wildfires for Children: Acute Phase, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Environmental Hazards for Children in the Aftermath of Wildfires, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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[IN FOCUS] Food & Fitness Initiative Highlights

7 Jul 2008 16:56:54 -0600

Food & Fitness Initiative Highlights

The following are Cooperative Extension Community highlights that are part of the W.K. Kellogg Food and Fitness Initiative. More highlights will be added as they become available.

Contact Shirley Gerrior, CSREES national program leader, for more information.

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[RESOURCE] Health/Nutrition and Health Extension Specialists Directory, CSREES. Contact information on extension faculty and staff by state and institution.

5 Jun 2008 17:45:32 -0600

Health/Nutrition and Health Extension Specialists Directory

The Health/Nutrition and Health Extension Specialists Directory lists by state and institution contact information for extension faculty and staff designed as a Health Extension Specialist or Nutrition and Health Specialist. In added areas of expertise for each person is provided. Users of the directory are encouraged to use this information for networking and information-sharing on health topics. Contact LaVern Friels with updates or directory changes, or Shirley Gerrior, if you wish to be added to the directory and more program details.

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[EVENT] Health Promotion Across the Spectrum of Aging: A Gerontological Perspective, Boca Raton, FL, July 18-19, 2008.

27 May 2008 11:51:47 -0600

[EVENT] National Center for Health Statistics 2008 Data Users Conference, Washington, DC, August 11-13, 2008.

21 May 2008 09:54:58 -0600

[RESOURCE] CDC Arthritis Program. Physical activity and self-management education programs for adults with arthritis.

21 May 2008 09:53:40 -0600

[RESOURCE] NIHSeniorHealth Web site. Information source for older adults on food labels and safety, meal planning, food shopping, and ways to enjoy eating.

7 May 2008 15:58:16 -0600

[EVENT] 30th Lillian Fountain Smith Conference for Nutrition Educators, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, June 12-13, 2008.

21 Apr 2008 12:05:10 GMT

[RESOURCE] Power to Prevent: A Family Lifestyle Approach to Diabetes Prevention, CDC. A community curriculum to address the diabetes epidemic among African Americans.

21 Apr 2008 12:04:32 GMT