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Announcements
20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control:
Cultivating 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 February 23-25 in Washington, DC. The
conference will celebrate 2 decades of extraordinary progress in the
prevention and control of chronic diseases and draw 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.
January Issue Features Selected Full-Text
Spanish Translations
Announcement posted 12/15/08
The full-text Spanish translation of 2 articles related to the Mexican
Ministry of Health, Healthy
Communities Program and
Implementation of Mexico’s Health Promotion Operational Model, are available in this issue of
Preventing Chronic
Disease. If you missed our October 2008 issue, the full-text Spanish
translation of several articles concerning the
Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for Women’s Health have also been
translated.
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 the prevention of 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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