Chronic Disease Prevention
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NACCHO's Chronic Disease Prevention Team is working with the goal of engaging and enhancing local health department's ability to expand evidence- and practice-based chronic disease prevention activities in their communities and promote change at the policy, systems, and environmental levels in order to reduce the burden of chronic diseases. Our current projects include the following:
Select each of these project sites to find out more information. Feedback on Menu Labeling Provision NACCHO is collecting local health department comments on the new menu labeling provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA 2010). Under Section 4205 of PPACA 2010, a restaurant that is part of a chain with 20 or more locations doing business under the same name (other restaurants are exempt) would be required to disclose calories on the menu board and in a written form, available to customers upon request, additional nutrition information pertaining to total calories and calories from fat, as well as amounts of fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates. (Transfats is not currently required in that “additional nutrition information.”) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal agency responsible for enforcement of this new law, is seeking comments from the public. Despite FDA enforcement, many local health departments (LHDs) have expressed concerned about how implementing the menu labeling law will impact LHD operations after a time of severe staff cuts. In order ensure the FDA understands these and other concerns, NACCHO is collecting member feedback on the new law. NACCHO will develop comments on behalf of its members based on survey results. The survey should take less than one hour.Click here to complete the survey.Survey results are due no later than Aug. 29, 2010. Annual Report Card on Obesity Released Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently released F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010, their annual report card on rates and rankings of adult obesity in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This seventh annual report includes states’ obesity rates, a review of trends over time, a public opinion survey about childhood obesity, a review of obesity policies and recommendations for ways to fight America’s growing obesity crisis and to address the epidemic as part of health reform. This year’s report also highlights obesity rates by race, ethnicity, and income disparity by region. Big Cities Reach out to Promote Nutrition The NACCHO Big Cities work group wrote a letter to congress to encourage that the federal government's reauthorization of the federal child nutrition programs include supporting healthy eating among the nation's children. These city and metropolitan health departments stress the need to curb the obesity epidemic and utilize policy opportunities such as the upcoming reauthorization. NACCHO recently released a fact sheet describing how NACCHO programs and resources are helping local health departments to prevent obesity in their communities. More » NACCHO Awards Grants to Five Local Health Departments NACCHO selected five communities in the Southeast to pioneer work on promoting healthy eating and active living opportunities to reduce childhood obesity. This program is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Leadership for Healthy Communities national program. The program will focus on policy, systems, and environmental change strategies to address nutrition, physical activity, and increasing access to healthy foods and opportunities for activity. The following communities were awarded grants:
Visit our Leadership for Healthy Communities page for more information. |
