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Tobacco Use, Smoking, and Health
- CDC supports programs to prevent and control tobacco use in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, seven territories, and seven tribal support centers.
- HHS establishes a national network of quitlines. CDC in conjunction with National Cancer Institute (NCI) is working on a national network of quitlines to ensure that smokers throughout the United States have access to toll-free quitline services regardless of their geographic location or economic status.
Obesity, Nutrition, and Physical Activity
- CDC supports the development of effective prevention and treatment strategies through state obesity programs, state coordinated school health programs, partnerships, and an applied research agenda to develop and refine new approaches.
- Currently, CDC provides funding to 20 states to prevent and reduce the prevalence of obesity and the chronic diseases associated with obesity. CDC supports states in developing and testing nutrition and physical activity interventions to prevent obesity through strategies that focus on multiple levels of change including individual, environment and policy.
- CDC's Youth Media Campaign supports a comprehensive communications approach designed to encourage young people aged 9-13 years to adopt healthy behaviors, especially physical activity.
Alcohol
- CDC supports public health surveillance on alcohol-related conditions and alcohol use, particularly binge drinking; conducts and supports applied research to characterize the public health impact of alcohol misuse and to evaluate the effectiveness of alcohol control measures; and supports the building of state capacity to prevent excessive drinking.
- CDC also conducts public health research to develop effective evidence-based interventions to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies and to improve long-term outcomes for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ARND), and provides information and training to medical and allied health professionals, teachers and the public on all aspects of prenatal alcohol exposure and its outcomes.
Microbial Diseases
- CDC's strategy for combating infectious diseases focuses on building domestic and global capacity for recognizing and responding to infectious disease threats.
- To ensure the health of U.S. citizens everywhere, CDC's infectious disease funding supports surveillance, epidemic investigations, research, training and public education in all 50 states and across the globe.
- CDC recently established seven domestic and global sentinel surveillance networks linking health care providers to detect and monitor emerging diseases.
- Overuse of antibiotics has become a serious problem leading to antimicrobial resistance. CDC's "Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work" campaign was unveiled last year to lower the rate of antibiotic use. In addition, 70 percent of the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections are resistant to at least one of the drugs most commonly used to treat them. CDC is also working to prevent antimicrobial resistance in health care settings with a comprehensive campaign targeted to clinicians in hospitals and long-term care settings.
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CDC's Prevention Activities That Target Actual Causes of Death (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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