250686 Public Health in Partnership: Working Across Sectors for Sustainable and Healthy Communities

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 11:30 AM

Rebecca Bunnell, ScD, MEd , National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
     
The presenter will provide an overview of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Initiative, highlight some early successes of the program, and discuss the need for multi-sector engagement in building healthy communities. She will identify several successful policy, systems, and environmental change strategies being implemented across the country through the CPPW program, along with examples of multi-sector partnerships that are at the core of those strategies.

Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and prevention
Other professions or practice related to public health
Public health or related education
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain the programmatic and scientific rationale for multi-sectoral engagement in efforts to build healthy communities through policy, systems and environmental change. 2. Describe multiple approaches to bridging the gap between sectors and engaging non-health sectors into community health initiatives. 3. Identify several successful policy, systems, and environmental change strategies being implemented across the country at the community level.

Keywords: Community Health, Chronic Diseases

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Dr. Rebecca Bunnell is the Program Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Communities Prevention Putting to Work program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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