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National Expert Panel on Community Health Promotion
The CDC and Community Health and Program Services (CHAPS) has a long and
rich history of supporting innovative community health programs and
recognizes that CDC constituents working in health promotion are constantly
challenged to access the latest information on cross-cutting chronic disease
prevention and health promotion recommendations. To accelerate access to
expertise in this area, and to find new ways to support community health
promotion at the national level, CHAPS invited an external panel of experts
to participate in the National Expert Panel on Community Health Promotion.
The purpose of the meeting was to convene a group of experts external to
CDC to develop specific recommendations that would inform the CDC's National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s (NCCDPHP)
future efforts in community health promotion. More than 25 experts from academia,
state and local health departments, national nonprofits, and
community-based organizations participated in the meeting. In addition,
each division within NCCDPHP was represented through the establishment of a
CDC Ad-Hoc Committee that observed the meeting and provided continual
feedback and support.
The recommendations include issues related to community-based
participatory research and surveillance, training and capacity building, new
approaches for health and wellness, and changes in federal investments. They
illustrate the steps needed to broaden the traditional scope of public
health and to advance a new vision for improving community health and
wellness.
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Recommendations from the National Expert Panel on
Community Health Promotion
- Enhance surveillance systems beyond the tracking
of individual risk factors to include community
health indicators and social determinants of health.
- Promote community-based participatory research (CBPR)
within and outside of CDC.
- Support training and capacity building to ensure
that the public health workforce has the knowledge,
skills, and tools necessary to implement community
health promotion approaches.
- Promote a state-of-the-art e-mechanism to share
expertise and knowledge about community health
promotion.
- Champion a focus on wellness that includes
mental health, spirituality, and complementary and
alternative medicine (CAM).
- Shift a measurable part of CDC’s community
health promotion programs to focus on improving
living conditions across the lifespan.
- Maximize the impact of federal resources
dedicated to community health promotion.
- Provide funding tailored to the realities of
community health.
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CDC CHAPS Action Steps to Fulfill Recommendations
CHAPS has made a commitment to address four specific recommendations:.
Enhance surveillance systems to go beyond individual risk factors to
include community and social determinants of health.
Action Steps:
- Develop a social context module for the Behavioral Risk
Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS).
Support training and capacity building to ensure that the public
health workforce has the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to implement
community health promotion approaches.
Action Steps:
- Disseminate lessons learned and translation of research in
public health practice.
Create a platform and architecture for virtual community health
promotion with capabilities to share knowledge, disseminate evidence-based
programs, and communicate with local communities.
Action Steps:
- Develop the Community Health E-Resources Tool.
Shift a measurable part of CDC’s community health promotion
programs and funding to targeting living conditions across the lifespan.
Action Steps:
- Develop a workbook and training curriculum for researchers,
practitioners, and community organizations to address and evaluate
social determinants of health.
- Emphasize the socioecologic model for developing community
interventions through the new REACH U.S. (Racial and Ethnic
Approaches to Community Health Across the U.S.) grant.
- Update the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) project.
What other CDC efforts address the expert panel
recommendations?
Champion a focus on wellness that acknowledges the role of mental
health, spirituality, and complementary and alternative medicine across the
lifespan.
Action Steps:
- Lead a research project to explore the relationship and
consequent impact of acculturation and mental health (e.g., stress,
depression, health-related quality of life) on chronic diseases
among Hispanic/Latino populations.
Support training and capacity building to ensure that the public
health workforce has the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to implement
community health promotion approaches.
Action Steps:
- Disseminate lessons learned and translation of research in
public health practice through programs such as Steps to a
HealthierUS and Prevention Research Centers.
- Develop dissemination strategies with other divisions such as
Adolescent and School Health and the Office on Smoking and Health.
- Develop and implement translation schematic via NCCDPHP’s
Workgroup on Research Translation.
CDC’s Future Direction in Community Health Promotion
CDC CHAPS has convened a Committee on Community Health Promotion to
raise the profile and the importance of community health promotion across
CDC Programs . The purposes of this committee include the following:
- Serve as an entity to discuss ideas, new programmatic initiatives,
and other activities related specifically to the recommendations of the
expert panel and related community health promotion activities.
- Prioritize the expert panel recommendations and bring back
actionable steps related to the prioritized recommendations.
- Serve as a communication bridge and provide periodic updates to the
center on ongoing and newly developed activities, tools, products, and
partnerships related to the expert panel recommendations.
Page last reviewed: August 26, 2008
Page last modified: August 26, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult
and Community Health, National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
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