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Chronic Disease Notes & Reports

Chronic Disease Notes & Reports, the newsletter of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, reports on activities of interest to health professionals involved with the myriad aspects of disease prevention and health promotion.

Current Issue

June 2007: Vol. 18, No. 2
(PDF - 237K)

Special Topic: Healthy Aging

  • Commentary: Aging in Good Health
  • SENIOR Grants Address Healthy Aging through Collaboration
  • An Emerging Public Health Priority: Promoting Cognitive Health
  • Improving Oral Health among Older Americans
  • cdnotes

December 2005: Vol. 18, No. 1
(PDF - 698K)

Special Topic: Tobacco Control

  • Commentary: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Death and Disease
  • The Burden of Smoking
  • Sustaining State Programs
  • Eliminating Health Disparities Related to Tobacco Use
  • Evidence-Based Interventions Offer Proven Strategies
  • Tobacco Update
  • cdnotes

Previous Issues

Winter 2005: Volume 17, Number 2
(PDF - 3.21mb)

Special Topic: Obesity

  • The Director's Perspective
  • Commentary
  • The Burden of Obesity in the United States: A Problem of Massive Proportions
  • Target Obesity and Bring Down the Big Three: Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes
  • CDC’s Healthier Worksite Initiative
  • Changing the Physical Environment to Promote Health
  • VERB™—It’s What You Do
  • States Carry the Load of Obesity Efforts
  • Steps to Losing Weight and Being Healthy
  • New Medicare Policy Could Expand Coverage of Obesity Treatment
  • State Policy and Environmental Changes Make It Easier to Stay Healthy
  • cdnotes

 

Fall 2004: Volume 17, Number 1
(PDF - 725mb)

Special Focus: Heart Disease and Stroke

  • Message from the Director
  • Our Goal for the 21st Century
  • Heart Disease Burden
  • Public Health Action Plan Charts Course for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
  • State CVH Programs: The Heart of the Matter
  • Cardiovascular Disease Emerges as a Growing Global Threat
  • Health Department and Businesses Team Up to Fight Heart Disease and Stroke
  • Duke University
  • Highsmith Inc
  • Fieldale Farms
  • L.L.Bean
  • How Can We Entice Employers to Invest in Work Site Health Promotion?
  • REACH 2010 Projects Reflect Community Concerns
  • WISEWOMAN Program Aims to Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease for Underserved Women
  • Cardiovascular Health Tool Kit Will Help States Collaborate with Businesses
  • Registries Play an Important Role in Helping Understand and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
  • Cardiovascular Disease and an Association with Gum Disease
  • Smoking Bans Can Reduce Heart Attacks
  • cdnotes

Correction: In CDNR volume 16, no. 2/3 (Winter/Spring/Summer 2004), page 24, we incorrectly identified Wake County, North Carolina as Rick County. There is no Rick County in North Carolina. We apologize for the error.
 

Winter/Spring/Summer 2004: Volume 16, Number 2/3
(PDF - 1.2mb)

Special Focus: Health-Related Quality of Life, Part II — State and Local Applications

  • Health-Related Quality of Life, Part II — State and Local Applications
  • Commentary
  • Missouri Leading the Way in Testing and Using HRQOL Measures
  • Hennepin County, Minnesota County-Level Data Key to Effective Public Health Practice
  • California How Are California Counties Using HRQOL Data?
  • Oregon Benchmarking Oregon
  • North Carolina How Many Years of Your Life Will You Enjoy Good Health?
  • Healthy Days Measures Shape A Portrait of the Chronically IlI
  • Reporting the Social Health of the Nation
  • Measuring Quality of Life in the World, Nation, States, and Local Areas
  • Using Quality of Life to Measure a Program’s Effectiveness and Value
  • cdnotes

Correction: In CDNR volume 16, no. 2/3 (Winter/Spring/Summer 2004), page 24, we incorrectly identified Wake County, North Carolina, as Rick County. There is no Rick County in North Carolina. We apologize for the error.
 

Winter 2003: Volume 16, Number 1
(PDF - 407K)

Special Focus: Health-Related Quality of Life, Part I

  • Health-Related Quality of Life Reveals Full Impact of Chronic Diseases
  • Commentary: We’re Living Longer, But What About Our Quality of Life?
  • HRQOL Measures Can Help Track Health as Population Ages 
  • Measuring the Health of Communities
  • Health-Related Quality of Life Among Women
  • Building Healthier Communities
  • Bridging the Artificial Gap Between Physical and Mental Illness
  • cdnotes

Correction: In CDNR volume 15, no. 3 (Fall 2002), we incorrectly reported that smoking among high school students declined by 16%. The actual rate of decline is 18%. We apologize for the error.
 

Fall 2002: Volume 15, Number 3
(PDF - 3.4MB)

Special Focus: Eliminating Health Disparities

  • Interventions to Eliminate Health Disparities Are Innovative
  • Commentary: What We Do About Health Disparities Matters
  • Diversity in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities Poses Challenge for Health Care Providers
  • Overcoming the Challenges of Eliminating Disparities in Tobacco Use
  • We Must Identify the Gaps Before We Can Close Them
  • Lesbians Face Many Barriers to Good Health Care
  • Comprehensive Approach Needed to Eliminate Diabetes Disparities
  • cdnotes

Spring/Summer 2002: Volume 15, Number 2
(PDF - 1.23MB)

Special Focus: Eliminating Health Disparities

  • Public Health Puzzle: Social Determinants of Health
  • Commentary: Identifying the Causes of Health Disparities
  • Disparities in Maternal and Child Health
  • Eliminating Disparities in Oral Health: The National “Call to Action”
  • Health Disparities Among Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
  • cdnotes

Winter 2002: Volume 15, Number 1
(PDF - 1.11MB)

Special Focus: Research

  • No One Left Behind: Focusing Research on Health Disparities
  • Commentary
  • CDC’s Research Agenda Strives to Build Foundation for Public Health Action
  • Translating Science into Action Means Better Health for Everyone
  • Surveillance Provides Knowledge and Understanding to Support Effective Prevention Research
  • Research at State and Local Levels Benefits Communities Nationwide
  • Public Health Benefits When Communities Participate and Help to Guide Research
  • cdnotes


Fall 2001: Volume 14, Number 3
(PDF - 2.04MB)

Special Focus: Reducing Tobacco Use

  • The National Tobacco Control Program
  • Commentary: Public Health Demands Continuing Progress in Tobacco Control
  • Clean Indoor Air: Critical Component of Comprehensive Tobacco Control
  • Young People and Tobacco: Preventing Addiction at Its Roots
  • Helping Kids Say 'No' to Tobacco, 'Yes' to Sports
  • Sports Stars and Coaches Support Tobacco-Free Sports for Youth
  • Youth Surveillance Aids Global Tobacco Control Efforts
  • School Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use
  • Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation
  • Master Settlement Agreement Offers Funding Opportunity for Tobacco Control
  • Cigarette Smoking Linked to Gum Diseases
  • The Surgeon General's Report on Women and Smoking
  • SAMMEC on the Internet
  • Prenatal Smoking Databook Points to Need for Better Services
  • cdnotes


Spring/Summer 2001: Volume 14, Number 2
(PDF - 129K)

Special Focus: Information Resources

  • Internet Has Revolutionized How Chronic Disease Data Are Being Used
  • Searchable Internet-Based Databases Enhance Accessibility and Usefulness of NCCDPHP Data
  • Using the Web to Share Information on Health Education and Health Promotion
  • Writing for the Web
  • What Is Public Health Informatics All About?
  • Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality
  • cdnotes


Winter 2001: Volume 14, Number 1
(PDF - 281K)

Special Focus: School Health

  • Commentary
  • Coordinated School Health Programs Make a Difference
  • Secretaries Send Youth Physical Activity Report to the White House
  • Reaching and Protecting Young People
  • Asthma: 10 Million School Days Lost Each Year
  • Michigan Gets Moving With PE Curriculum
  • Utah's Unique Approach to School Health
  • Gold Medal School Project Guides Health Policies
  • Healthier Smiles: Children's Oral Health
  • Study Will Strengthen School Health Policies and Programs
  • How States Are Using YRBSS Data
  • CDC Supports International School Health Activities
  • Media Campaign Planned
  • cdnotes


Fall 2000: Volume 13, Number 3
(PDF - 247K)

Special Focus: Cancer

  • Commentary
  • National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program
  • Educating Americans About the Importance of Screening for Colorectal Cancer
  • CDC Campaigns to Prevent Skin Cancer
  • Improving Diagnoses of Oral Cancer
  • Cancer Surveillance: And Essential National Strategy
  • Prevention Research Centers Work to Reduce Cancer Rates
  • cdnotes

Spring/Summer 2000: Volume 13, Number 2
(PDF - 139K)

Special Focus: Safe Motherhood

  • Commentary
  • Teen Pregnancy Prevention
  • Negotiating Safer Sex Between Couples
  • Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Health
  • CDC-CityMatCH Partnership
  • Reducing Unintended Pregnancies
  • Reproductive Health in Refugee Settings
  • cdnotes


Winter 2000: Volume 13, Number 1
(PDF - 249K)

Special Focus: Nutrition and Physical Activity

  • Commentary
  • The Obesity Epidemic Among Young People
  • The Hidden Hunger: Micronutrient Malnutrition
  • Hemochromatosis and Food Supplements
  • 5 A Day for Better Health
  • New York's Low-Fat Milk Campaign
  • Zuni Wellness Clinic
  • Improving the Health of Uninsured Women
  • cdnotes


Fall 1999: Volume 12, Number 3
(PDF - 210K)

Special Focus: Healthy Aging

  • Commentary
  • Arthritis Now a Public Health Priority
  • Diabetes Among Older Adults
  • Physical Activity Helps Seniors
  • Growing Problem of Alzheimer's Disease
  • cdnotes


Spring/Summer 1999: Volume 12, Number 2
(PDF - 324K)

Special Focus: Diabetes

  • Commentary
  • NDEP Strives to Help Persons with Diabetes
  • NDEP Taps Six Minority Groups as Partners
  • NDEP Media Campaign
  • International Efforts to Control Diabetes
  • TRIAD Studies Better Diabetes Treatments
  • CDC Supports State's Diabetes Treatments
  • State Diabetes Control Programs Meet Unique Challenges
  • cdnotes

Winter 1999 : Volume 12, Number 1
(PDF - 313K)

Special Focus: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers Program

  • Commentary
  • Harlem Residents Foster a Health Renaissance
  • Taking Health Messages to Workplaces
  • American Indian Communities Improve Their Children's Health
  • Program Credits ASPH's Vision
  • IOM Speaks to the Future
  • SIPS Augment Core Efforts
  • Partnerships for Women's Health
  • cdnotes


Fall 1998 : Volume 11, Number 1
(PDF - 700K)

Special Focus: NCCDPHP’S 10th Anniversary

  • Commentary
  • Communicating about Chronic Diseases
  • Looking at 12 Years of Chronic Disease Conferences
  • New NCCDPHP Programs Coming into Their Own
  • Surveillance Systems Provide Crucial Information
  • Web Site Offers Many Resources
  • Awards Underscore a Decade of Accomplishments
  • Publications Cover an Array of Chronic Disease Topics
  • cdnotes


Fall 1997 : Volume 10, Number 2
(PDF - 514K)

Special Focus: Cardiovascular Disease

  • Commentary
  • CVD Burden and Risk
  • Primary Prevention Strategy for CVD
  • Secondary Prevention Tied to Behavioral Risk Factors
  • CDC's Lipid Lab Sets Standards
  • NCCDPHP's CVD-Related Activities
  • NCCDPHP's Key CVD Resources
  • State-Based CVD Prevention Activities Vary
  • cdnotes
  • Graphs, maps, and tables


Spring/Summer 1997 : Volume 10, Number 1
(PDF - 528K)

Special Focus: Public Health and Managed Care

  • Commentary
  • Network of HMO Research Centers Formed
  • Tracking Prevention Through HEDIS
  • Using the BRFSS to Collect Managed Care Data
  • Alphabet Soup
  • NCCDPHP Partners with MCOs
  • State-Based Managed Care Activities
  • Managed Care Forum: Emerging Issues
  • cdnotes


  • Fall 1996 : Volume 9, Number 2
    (PDF - 585K)

    Special Focus: Physical Activity and Health

  • Moderate Activity Examples
  • CDC's Physical Activity Initiative Set in Motion
  • Ten Exemplary Programs Deliver Interventions
  • Two Prevention Centers Work Together on PA
  • Order Forms for SGR/PA Materials
  • cdnotes

  • Summer 1996 : Volume 9, Number 1
    (PDF - 417K)

    Special Issue: Tenth Chronic Disease Conference

  • Special Issue: Recapping the Tenth National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
  • cdnotes
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