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Announcements
20th National Conference on Chronic Disease
Prevention and Control: Cultivation Healthy Communities
Announcement posted 6/15/08
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host the 20th
National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Cultivating
Healthy Communities next February 23-25 in Washington, DC. The conference will be
celebrating two decades of extraordinary progress in the prevention and
control of chronic diseases and drawing on these successes to accelerate
progress over the next 20 years. Conference presenters will share relevant
information on innovations in science, policy, community interventions,
health marketing, and information technology that support healthy lifestyles
and cultivate healthy communities. Through extensive networking
opportunities, participants will learn successful chronic disease prevention
efforts, best practices, and effective intervention techniques used by their
colleagues and challenges as we move into the next decade of health system
transformation. For more information, visit
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/conference/index.htm.
Chronic Disease Indicators Web Site Now Available
Announcement posted 1/30/08
The Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI) Web site is now available at
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/cdi. CDI is a crosscutting set of 90 indicators that
were developed by consensus and that allow states and territories to
uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data that are
important to public health practice and are available at the state level.
The indicators are provided in the following seven categories: physical
activity and nutrition, tobacco and alcohol use, cancer, cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, overarching conditions, and other diseases and risk
factors. Users can generate a profile of indicator data for any state,
compare data across states and to national data, and download results to a
spreadsheet.
Submit an Announcement
We welcome brief announcements (25 to 75 words) of events of interest to
our readers. In this section, we also include information (no more than 100
words) about upcoming conferences related to preventing chronic disease.
Announcements should list the topics to be covered during the conference and
may refer readers to a Web site with a full description of conference
activities. These announcements will be put on our Web site within 2 weeks
of approval for publication. All announcements must be submitted through Manuscript
Central.
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