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Nearly one-third of American adults are obese. And almost 15 percent of our children and adolescents are overweight, a figure that has doubled since 1980.
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Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, childhood asthma, obesity and other chronic conditions that affect us — and those we care about — now account for 70 percent of all deaths in the United States. Racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities persist and widen. While CDC is best-known for fighting infectious disease outbreaks, CDC also provides the science that helps community leaders, employers and families battle chronic health threats by choosing and promoting healthy behaviors. The CDC Foundation helps connect CDC with foundations and businesses in the private sector that have a shared interest in promoting healthy life styles and preventing chronic diseases. Examples of these public-private partnerships are listed below.
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Featured Program:
CDC Science Helps Fight a Supersized Problem
CDC Foundation partnerships are arming community leaders and employers with CDC science to battle obesity.
Says CDC's William Dietz, "We know a lot about the outcomes of obesity. What everyone wants to know now is 'What do we do about it?' " Read more |
Chronic Disease and Birth Defects Programs
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Active Living Research
To encourage transdisciplinary collaboration and build a research field that identifies environmental factors and public and private policies that have the potential to influence physical activity and sedentary behavior.
- Funding Partners: San Diego State University Research Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs
To conduct a focus group to improve understanding of the reasons women do or do not adhere to recommended breast cancer screening guidelines. The information will be used to develop messages, programming and media campaigns designed to increase regular mammography screening.
- Funding Partners: Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Common Community Measures for Obesity Prevention
To measure the impact of policies related to the prevention and control of childhood obesity and provide community leaders with science-based recommendations for action.
- Funding Partners: Kaiser Permanente; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Developing a Workplace Health Index
To develop a collection of tools, guidelines and resources designed to give employers a self-guided, step-by-step approach to creating, improving or enhancing their workplace health activities.
- Funding Partners: American Association of Retired Persons
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Early Assessment of Childhood Obesity
To identify ongoing interventions aimed at reducing childhood obesity that successfully reduce children's body mass indices.
- Funding Partners: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Evidence-based Interventions for Caregivers
To help educate community-based organizations that support caregivers about approaches and strategies that have been proven effective, through scientific evaluation, in improving the health and well-being of caregivers.
- Funding Partners: Kimberly-Clark
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Foodborne Illness Prevention
To increase collaboration across the country and across relevant areas of expertise to reduce foodborne illness in the United States.
- Funding Partners: YUM! Brands, Inc.
- Program Partners: CIFOR;
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases
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Inflammatory Back Pain and Spondyloarthritis
To add screening for inflammatory back pain and spondyloarthritis to CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to determine its prevalence in U.S. adults ages 20-69 years, and to use NHANES data to determine those at greatest risk for developing ankylosing spondylitis.
- Funding Partners: Spondylitis Association of America
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Legal Preparedness for Obesity Prevention and Control
To help CDC work with outside partners to determine how legal tools are currently being used to help reduce obesity rates and discuss other ways to employ those legal tools to fight obesity.
- Funding Partners: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Newborn Screening Translation Research Initiative
To improve four major areas of newborn screening: 1) developing new screening methods for specific diseases, 2) integrating state public health laboratories in the translation process through collaborative field studies, 3) expanding the global reach of newborn screening, and 4) adapting innovative technologies for screening and quality assurance.
- Funding Partners: Applied Biosystems; Genzyme Corporation; Health Research, Incorporated; The Miriam Hospital; National Alliance for Autism Research; National Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC
- Program Partners: California Department of Health Services, Genetic Services Branch; Emory University, Department of Human Genetics; Jeffrey Modell Foundation; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; Kennedy Krieger Institute; Medical College of Georgia, Center fo Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center; University of Washington; Wadsworth Center, NewYork State Department of Health; Washington State Department of Health; Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
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Oregon Health Plan Lottery
To enable CDC's Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to provide expert advice and hands-on training in the development of a study to assess the effects of health insurance coverage on low income populations in Oregon.
- Funding Partners: Center for Outcomes Research and Education
- Program Partners: National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
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Study of Blood Inhibitors in Hemophilia Patients
To monitor hemophilia patients for the development of inhibitors and establish a surveillance system to collect and analyze a uniform set of clinical data.
- Funding Partners: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
- Program Partners: Multiple hemophilia treatment centers; National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC
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Understanding Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening
Understanding Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening To use Geographic Information Systems to study the effects of travel time and distance to healthcare facilities on access to and quality of breast cancer prevention and treatment services for economically disadvantaged women living in urban areas like metro Atlanta, GA.
- Funding Partners: Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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