Advancing Prevention: State and Local Opportunities

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State Health Agency Areas of Focus

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Asthma
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity
• Tobacco

• Cancer
• Heart Disease Stroke
• Alzheimers Disease
• Steps to a HealthierUS (integrated approaches)

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Steps to a HealthierUS A key example

• Enable communities to reduce burden of chronic
  disease.
  
• Implement community-focused programs that engage
  community sectors.
  
• Schools
• Community Organizations
• Businesses
• Faith-communities
• Health Care Purchasers, Plans and Providers
• Academic Institutions
• Senior Centers
• Utilize an integrated approach.

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Integrated Approach

• Addresses the leading causes of death and
  disability.
  
• Addresses the major risk factors.
• Reaches the general population and also targets
  high risk and priority populations in all the
  places in which members of the communities are
  found.

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Integrated Approach

• Interventions
• Intertwined
• Play off and promote each other
• Impact multiple disease/risk factor area
• Promoted by multiple partners and venues
• Target people throughout the life span
• Community-driven
• Developed by a diverse team

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Benefits of Integration

• Provides opportunities for programs to work
  together.
  
• Promotes collective thinking and problem solving.
  
  
• Supports working together in new ways so that the
  impact of all programs is improved.

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Benefits of Integration

• Promotes partnerships.
• Avoids duplication of efforts.
• Maximizes resources.
• Enhances coordination between systems.
• Develops systematic identification of common
  problems and gaps and shares opportunities for
  addressing them.
  
• Enables sharing of data and best practices.

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Community Consortia

• Community engagement
• Traditional and non-traditional partners
• Community investment and ownership

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Examples of NYS Steps Interventions

• Mission Meltaway
• Community Gardens
• North Country Steps Forward

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Mission Meltaway

• 8 week healthy weight management program
• Lead Broome County Office for Aging
• 54 community facilitators trained
• 50 sites
• 918 enrolled
• 556 completed
• Over 900 free 8 week YMCA memberships
  distributed
  

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Mission Meltaway

• 224 older adults enrolled
• 164 older adults completed
• 866 pounds lost

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Community Gardens

• Lead Northern Broome Senior Center
• Over 40 gardeners
• Participants reported
• ? physical activity
• ? socialization
• ? access to fresh vegetables
• ? opportunities to learn new skills

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North County Steps Forward

• Lead YMCA
• Individual/family pledge
• Community walks
• Mass media
• Schools and worksites open for walking

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North Country Steps Forward

• Over 7,900 participants
• Over 3,000 participants are age 65 or older
• 12 facilities open for walking
• 240 hours per week open for walking

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For More Information

• Steps to a HealthierUS http//www.healthierus.gov/
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