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Program Locations
 North
Carolina
Background: Since 1995, the North Carolina Department of Health and
Human Services has been funded as an enhanced project with its research
confined to one site. The rest of the sites within North Carolina are
standard.
Lifestyle Intervention: North Carolina uses A New Leaf...
Choices for Healthy Living to help women develop a healthier diet,
increase physical activity, and become tobacco free. New Leaf is
a structured nutrition and physical activity assessment and counseling
program focusing on cardiovascular disease risk reduction. New Leaf
is specifically tailored to the target population; the intervention tool
primarily focuses on older women, targets low-income individuals, is
written at a 6th grade reading level, and highlights Southern eating
patterns.
Screening: Risk factor screening includes blood pressure, glucose,
cholesterol as well as assessing height, weight, medical history,
tobacco use, and health behaviors.
Sites: Forty-seven local providers including health departments and
community health centers.
Key Partners: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, American Heart
Association, NC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, NC Diabetes
Prevention and Control Branch, NC Physical Activity and Nutrition
Branch.
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Page last reviewed: August 4, 2008
Page last modified: August 4, 2008
Content source: Division
for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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