Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #122027

Kathy Sykes, MPA, Office of Children's Health Protection, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Mail Code 1107A, Room 2512N (Ariel Rios North), Washington, DC 20460, 202 564 3651, sykes.kathy@epamail.epa.gov

The EPA, CDC and the President's Fitness Council, as well as the National Blueprint Office and the National Council on the Aging, are joining forces to create a recognition program for communities that promote health and well-being of older adults through environmental and physical activity efforts. This planned recognition program, while still in the planning stages, will encourage communities to take an ecological approach -- bridging sector boundaries to involve policy makers, community leaders, community and environmental organizations, land-use planners, etc., in making communities a healthy place for older adults to live. A secondary goal of the program is to create a learning network where communities would learn by example from active living programs and the successful incorporation of smart growth principles that build healthy communities.

Learning Objectives:

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Keywords: Environmental Health,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.