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Alternative Title:
Prev Chronic Dis
Personal Author:
Plescia, Marcus ; Young, Suzanna ; Ritzman, Rosemary L
Plescia, Marcus ; Young, Suzanna ; Ritzman, Rosemary L Less -
Description:
Background

Public health faces major challenges to building state and local infrastructure with the capacity to address the underlying causes of chronic disease. We describe a structured statewide approach to providing technical assistance for local communities to support and develop health promotion capacity.

Context

Over the last two decades, the North Carolina Statewide Health Promotion program has supported local approaches to the prevention and control of chronic disease. In 1999, a major change in the program required local health departments to focus on policy-change and environmental-change strategies for addressing three major risk factors: physical inactivity, poor diet, and tobacco use.

Methods

State program consultants provided technical assistance and training opportunities to local programs on effective policy-change and environmental-change strategies and interventions, based on needs defined by a statewide monitoring and evaluation system.

Consequences

The percentage of health departments in North Carolina with interventions addressing at least one of three targeted risk factors in 2004 approached 100%; in 2001, this percentage was 62%. Additionally, between 2001 and 2004, the number of health departments reporting policy or environmental outcomes related to these risk factors almost doubled.

Interpretation

Requiring local programs to implement policy-change and environmental-change interventions that address the three major behavioral risk factors provides an organized framework for accountability. An established reporting system guides technical assistance efforts and monitors their effectiveness based on standardized objectives that address the full scope of the socioecological model.


Subjects:
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Chronic Disease Community-Institutional Relations Community Health Services Health Promotion Humans Models, Theoretical Motor Activity Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Smoking
Source:
Prev Chronic Dis. 2005; 2(Spec No).
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
North Carolina
Location:
North America
Collection(s):
Preventing Chronic Disease
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:b20ad86da7d56f933f621deba031f0e6f8ea6d5b88e7089cdddf78469f9528a6
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19980/cdc_19980_DS1.pdf
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