Resources :: Emphasizing Preventative Health and Wellness
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention site lists their Healthy Communities Programs that work with communities through state and national partnerships to improve community leader's skills and commitments of establishing, advancing, and maintaining effective population-based strategies that reduce the burden of chronic disease and achieve health equity.
Dr. Oz is host of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning The Dr. Oz Show and also Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University. His website contains articles on a wide range of preventative-health measures, especially advocating a healthy diet and active lifestyle.
Alliance for a Healthy Generation
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works to address one of the nation’s leading public health threats – childhood obesity. Founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and William J. Clinton Foundation, the Alliance works to positively affect the places that can make a difference in a child’s health: homes, schools, doctor’s offices, and communities.
Live Healthy America began as a non-profit program funded by the Iowa Sports Foundation and the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation in 2001. The goal of Live Healthy America is to increase awareness of obesity, overweight, and associated conditions and to provide the tools, resources, and technology to assist individuals, organizations, and corporations in creating a culture of wellness.
Healthy Families America (HFA) is a nationally recognized evidence-based home visiting program model designed to work with overburdened families who are at-risk for adverse childhood experiences, including child maltreatment. It is the primary home visiting model best equipped to work with families who may have histories of trauma, intimate partner violence, mental health and/or substance abuse issues.
MHA, the leading advocacy organization addressing the full spectrum of mental and substance use conditions and their effects nationwide, works to inform, advocate and enable access to quality behavioral health services for all Americans.
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
The Rudd Center seeks to improve the world’s diet, prevent obesity, and reduce weight stigma by establishing creative connections between science and public policy, developing targeted research, encouraging frank dialogue among key constituents, and expressing a dedicated commitment to real change.
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