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Global Health
CDC Vision
"Healthy People in a Healthy World through Prevention"
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Global Health Promotion Goal Areas
- Public health surveillance and response
- Public health infrastructure and capacity building
- Disease and injury prevention and control
- Applied research for effective health policies
- Exchange information and lessons learned
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Global Health Promotion Objectives
Surveillance
- Develop chronic disease surveillance and epidemiology capacity on a
regional basis.
- Disseminate information of experiences in
epidemiology and evaluation throughout the region.
- Provide technical assistance at the regional, national, and local
levels and encourage developing the most promising systems and
successful case studies for regional use.
Evaluation
- Summarize the effectiveness of health promotion interventions at the
global and regional levels.
- Support resource investment in evaluation and dissemination
experiences.
- Develop and disseminate a variety of methodologies for evaluating and
demonstrating effective health promotion efforts.
Health Promotion/ Capacity Building
- Build partnerships at the multinational, regional, national, and local
levels to promote health promotion practices of and understand
its principles.
- Strengthen the capacity of internal and external partners to plan,
implement, and evaluate health promotion programs and other initiatives.
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Links to Divisions Web Sites
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Partners
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Global Health Promotion Activities
Surveillance
- Implemented a series of
chronic disease surveillance and epidemiology courses for Latin American
Health Professionals throughout the region.
- Designed and implemented a binational health survey on behavioral risk factors
among residents of the U.S. Mexico Border region.
- Supported a series of four
international monitoring conferences in the United States, Finland, Australia, and Uruguay
- Supported the Brownsville-Matamorros Sister Cities Project, a pilot system
for collecting binational risk factor data on both sides of the U.S.
Mexico border.
- Help developed the Americas Network for Chronic
Disease Surveillance (AMNET), a Latin American regional network of
professionals interested in developing chronic disease surveillance
in their countries.
Evaluation
- In collaboration with Centro para el Desarrollo y Evaluación de
Políticas y Tecnología en Salud Pública (CEDETES), supported the development and
pilot testing of a rapid evaluation methodology for the Americas.
- In
collaboration with several partners in the Americas, supported the
development of a methodology for the economic evaluation of health promotion
interventions.
- Collaborated with The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and many partners throughout the
Americas to develop and disseminate a toolkit for participatory evaluation
in health promotion.
- Examins the association between
the built environment and health in Bogotá, Columbia.
- Develops case studies that can provide guidance for urbanizing
populations in developed and developing countries.
- Develops case studies and intervention evaluations that seek to
address the social determinants of health.
- Supported the
Global Program on
Health Promotion Effectiveness (GPHPE)*, a global and regional network
devoted to summarizing health promotion effectiveness, as
a part of the GPHPE,* supported initiatives in Latin America and Africa to
summarize health promotion effectiveness.
Health Promotion/ Capacity Building
- Partners with CDC's eight
divisions, to develop a strategic plan in the African
region to address noncommunicable disease prevention and health promotion.
- Supports external partners in developing training courses to
address chronic disease and health promotion.
- Supports the Global Consortium for Effective Community Health
Promotion that focuses on effective community health promotion strategies.
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Cooperative Agreements
CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) has projects in global
tobacco control, physical activity and health promotion, the Global School-Based Student Health Survey, and Diabetes Prevention and Control.
The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
and CDC supports a cooperative agreement with the International Union for
Health Promotion and Education that conducts activities in global health
promotion and education, mental health, cardiovascular health, physical
activity, school health promotion, community health, school health, and
tobacco prevention and control. Activities range from collaborating with
international networks representing broad regions of the globe, to work with
individual regions on disease-specific scientific studies and conferences
and trainings.
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Other Links
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Recent Publications
Health Promotion Evaluation Practice in the Americas: Values and
Research, Editors: Louise Potvin and David McQueen with: Mary Hall, Ligia de
Salazar, Laurie Anderson and Zulmira Hartz, New York: Springer Publishing,
Forthcoming, Summer, 2008.
B C K Choi, D V McQueen, P Puska, et al “Enhancing global capacity in the
surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases: seven themes to
consider and build upon.” Forthcoming JECH, 2008.
McQueen, D V., Kickbusch, I, Potvin, L, Pelikan, J, Balbo, L. Abel, T.
Health and Modernity: The Role of Theory in Health Promotion, New York:
Springer Publishing, 2007.
McQueen, David V., & Jones, Catherine M., eds. Global Perspectives on Health
Promotion Effectiveness. New York: Springer Science & Business Media.
Author and/or co-author of Chapters 1, 2, 13. Sole author Chapter 17,
“Evidence and Theory”, 2007.
Choi B CK, Corber SJ, McQueen DV, et al. Enhancing regional capacity in
chronic disease surveillance in the Americas. Rev Panam Salud Publica/Pan
Am J Public Health; 2005: 17(2).
Lightsey D, McQueen D, and Anderson L. Health promotion in the USA:
building a science-based health promotion policy. Chapter 19 in Scriven A and Garman
S, (Eds), Promoting Health: Global Perspectives. 2005,
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
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constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal
Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for
the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.
Page last reviewed:
March 26, 2008
Page last modified: March 26, 2008
Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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