NCCDPHP Success Story : Arkansas Town Makes Strides to Create Safe Streets for Walking and Cycling and Cycling

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
• Description:
  Public Health Challenge
  
  Arkansas and Alabama are tied for third
  
  among states with the highest obesity
  
  rates, according to 2016 Behavioral Risk
  
  Factor Surveillance System data. Unless
  
  something changes, the state faces many
  
  years of chronic disease and stress on the
  
  health system. According to the Arkansas
  
  Department of Health, 82% of Monroe
  
  County adults were overweight or had
  
  obesity in 2016. Clarendon, the county
  
  seat, is a small town of about 1,400. A
  
  needs assessment conducted by Arkansas
  
  Healthy Lifestyles Involving Food and
  
  Exercise (Arkansas Healthy LIFE), a
  
  program of the University of Arkansas
  
  Cooperative Extension Service, revealed
  
  about half of the county residents did not
  
  have access to any safe places for physical
  
  activity. In addition, the county scored only
  
  5.2 on a 10point
  
  healthy food environment
  
  index. Surprised by these findings,
  
  Arkansas Healthy LIFE formed the HEAL
  
  Clarendon coalition.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Healthy Diet Public Health
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Arkansas
• Pages in Document:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d593b7db0edcfe3956bfa3b967fcdc6253dd492001a6cfb86d69d0f268e08961
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79333/cdc_79333_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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