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About Steps
What is
the Steps Program?
The goal of the Steps Program is to help Americans live longer and
healthier lives. CDC provides
grants to Steps communities to implement chronic disease prevention and
health promotion activities to address obesity, diabetes, and asthma, as
well as their related risk behaviors: physical inactivity, poor nutrition,
and tobacco use.
The Steps communities:
- Accelerate change at the local level by creating a groundswell of
activity in local communities, through schools, worksites, health care
settings, and other community institutions, to support healthier
lifestyles and prevent chronic diseases.
- Reach beyond public health and bring together a wide range of
disciplines, such as business, transportation, and city planning, to
help improve the health of communities.
- Implement public health interventions that are evidence-based and
have been successful in changing people’s behaviors.
Steps communities form partnerships with traditional and non-traditional
partners to extend the reach of their programs and to accelerate progress
toward health outcomes. In addition, activities are integrated across the
public and private sectors—including community settings, schools, work
sites, and health care settings.
Steps-funded Communities
- Grantees create community action plans, partnerships, and evaluation
strategies to address six priority health challenges: obesity, diabetes,
asthma, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use.
- Programs use evidence-based approaches from existing and emerging
research.
- Communities form partnerships and coalitions to implement
activities.
- The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance System are used to measure program outcomes and
goals.
- Target populations include the following:
- Hispanics
- American Indians
- African Americans
- Asian American Pacific Islanders
- Immigrants
- Low-income populations
- People with disabilities
- School-aged youth
- Senior citizens
- People who are uninsured or underinsured
- People with or at high risk for obesity, diabetes, and asthma
Page last reviewed: May 2, 2008
Page last modified: April 16, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and
Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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