References for Evidence Based Data
Main Resources
– Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
www.cdc.gov
– Guide to Community Preventive Services,
www.thecommunityguide.org
School Based Interventions
Safe Routes to School,
www.cdc.gove/nccdphp/dnpa/kidswalk/index
.htm
Community Structural Environment,
www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/PhysicalActivity/
promotin_health/strategies/community.htm
Community Health Workers
Promoting and Protecting Healthy Communities:
A City Officials Guide to Public Health,
National Association of County and City
Health Officials, Ohio Department of Health,
http://www.odh.state.oh.us/
Facts and Figures
– 10 Leading Causes of Death by Age
Group-2002, National Vital Statistics
System, National Center for Health
Statistics, CDC
– STATISTICA, http://www.statsoft.com/
Worksite Wellness
StairWELL to Better Health,
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/stairwell/index.htm
Worksite Walkability,
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/walkability/inde
x/htm
Neighborhood Interventions
ACES,
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/aces.htm
Pedometer Challenges,
www.mihelathtools.org/faith/
Health
Perspectives in Disease Precention and Health Promotion
Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and
Minority Health, MMWR Weekly, February 28, 1986, pg
109-112
The Economics of Integrating Injury and Illness Prevention
and Health Promotion Programs, Seth A. Seabury,
Darius Lakdawalla and Robert T. Reville, RAND Institute
for Civil Justice, February 2005
Take Care New York: A Policy for a Healthier New York City,
New York City Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene, March 2004
Physical Activity
America on the Move, www.americaonthemove.org
The President’s Challenge,
http://www.presidentschallenge.org
Nike PE2GO, http://www.nike.com
Dog Walking and Physical Activity in the United States,
Sandra A. Ham, MS, and Jacqueline Epping, MEd,
Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research,
Practice and Policy, April 2006,
www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/apr/05_0106.htm
Diabetes
Disease Management Programs are Strongly Recommended
to Improve Diabetes Care,
www.thecommunityguide.org/diabetes/
Effectiveness of Diabetes Self-Management Education
Interventions, www.thecommunityguide.org/diabetes/
Obesity
Statewide Center for Healthy Schools,
http://www.nyshealthyschools.org/
Remarks to the NIEHS/NIH Conference on Environmental
Solutions to Obesity in America’s Youth, Mike Leavitt,
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Washington
Convention Center,
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/news/speech/2005/050601.html
Smoking Cessation
Policy and Environmental Change: Executive Summary,
New Directions for Public Health, U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center
for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion
Nutrition
Body & Soul, American Cancer Society,
http://www.cancer.org
5 A Day and 9 A Day, http://5aday.gov/9aday/