Programs & Initiatives

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the U.S. (REACH U.S.)

REACH U.S. is a national program that serves as the cornerstone of CDC’s efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. REACH U.S. supports community coalitions that design, implement, and evaluate community-driven strategies to eliminate health disparities among the following racial and ethnic groups: African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian Americans, Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders.

Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant

The PHHS Block Grant has provided 50 states, the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian tribes, and 8 U.S. territories with funding to address their own unique public health needs and challenges in innovative and locally defined ways.
 

State-based Epidemiology for Public Health Program Support (STEPPS)

The goal of the STEPPS activity is to assist states in building sustainable capacity for chronic disease epidemiology. The STEPPS activity answers Healthy People 2010’s call for an increase in “the proportion of Tribal, State, and local public health agencies that provide or assure comprehensive epidemiology services to support essential public health services.”
 

Work Site Health Promotion

National data indicate that women comprise 46% of the 137 million workers in the United States, with their predicted number to rise as high as 48% by 2008. Blue collar jobs, such as child care, clerical, or janitorial staff, consist of high numbers of female workers. Distinctively, female workers are nearly twice as likely to suffer from a stress-related illness as their male counterparts.

Page last modified: April 9, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion