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State-Based Epidemiology for Public Health
Program Support (STEPPS)
The goal of the State-Based Epidemiology for Public Health Program
Support (STEPPS) activity is to assist states in building sustainable
capacity for chronic disease epidemiology. STEPPS answers the Healthy People
2010 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.”
Contribution to Public Health
STEPPS initiates the process of building chronic disease epidemiology
capacity by providing health departments with human and financial resources
to secure the full-time services of a fully trained chronic disease
epidemiologist for approximately four years. Since 1991, STEPPS has provided
staff or salary support to 29 states. Of the 25 states no longer receiving
support from CDC, about two-thirds have made the successful transition to
having one or more state-supported positions for chronic disease
epidemiology that function independently of financial support from STEPPS.
Read recent reports on STEPPS:
- The Division of Adult and Community Health in collaboration with the
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the National
Association of Chronic Disease Program Directors (NACDD) published
a letter entitled Assessment of Chronic Disease Epidemiology Workforce in State
Health Departments in the July, 2007 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease
describing the current chronic disease epidemiology capacity in states
nationwide.
- In collaboration with CSTE and the National Association of Chronic
Disease Directors, a
position statement* (
PDF–32k) was drafted and adopted at the annual CSTE meeting. This statement updates strategies and recommendations for
building state capacity that have been developed and published since
2000
One or more documents on this Web page are available in Adobe Acrobat® Format
(PDF).
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF files on this page.
*Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a
service to our users. Links do not 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 modified: April 9, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult
and Community Health, National
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