PHF Helps You "Get Moving" During National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. The President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition is challenging everyone to pick up a new activity or sport, and help guide loved ones and neighbors to better nutrition and health.
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PHF Promotes CDC's Winnable Battles |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Winnable Battles are public health priorities with large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them.
CDC has identified nutrition, physical activity, and obesity as Winnable Battles. Progress in these areas is being made by developing policy, systems, and environmental initiatives that help make healthy choices available, affordable, and easy. CDC supports several approaches to improve nutrition and physical activity, including improving the food environments in childcare, schools, hospitals, and workplaces; reducing sodium levels in processed and restaurant foods; eliminating artificial trans-fat in the food supply; and increasing opportunities for safe physical activity.*
Find out more about how PHF is promoting Winnable Battles.
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The Guide to Community
Preventive Services |
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community. Evidence-based, scalable interventions in The Community Guide can be broadly implemented to cover many topic areas including nutrition, obesity, and physical activity.
Read the story about how the Sedgwick County Health Department in Kansas successfully used The Community Guide to implement Walktober, a community-wide campaign to increase physical activity.
Explore how Hoonah, a rural community in southeast Alaska, implemented recommendations in The Community Guide to address obesity by expanding access to places for physical activity and engaging the community in outreach activities.
Also obtain free fact sheets on physical activity and other topic areas from the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH). |
Preventing Childhood Obesity in
Early Care and Education Programs |
 Are you looking for ways to prevent childhood obesity in your community? If so, use Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Progams, which describes evidence-based practices in nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for early care and education programs. This guide is an essential tool for anyone trying to prevent or lower the rate of childhood obesity in their community. |
30 Easy Ways to Eat Healthier Brochure
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 Use the 30 Ways to Eat Healthier Brochure to educate your constituents about easy ways for improving their diet. Topics covered in the brochure include eating a healthy breakfast, preparing smaller portion sizes, switching to low-fat or non-fat milk, and avoiding vending machines.
This colorful, easy-to-use brochure is a great resource for community centers, doctor's offices, and health departments to have on hand. |
TV Watching and Childhood Obesity DVD
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 The TV Watching and Childhood Obesity DVD is a one-hour program from the University at Albany School of Public Health's "Public Health Live - T2B2" Series. Dr. Steven Gortmaker explores the effects of TV watching on children's activity levels, and pinpoints TV as the single best predictor of childhood obesity. He discusses interventions and policies that can reduce excessive television viewing by children and thus reduce obesity rates.
Use this program to educate yourself and others about the link between TV viewing and childhood obesity. |
About the Learning Resource Center |
The Public Health Foundation's Learning Resource Center (LRC) is where public health, health care, and others can find high quality training materials at an affordable price. These informative materials cover areas such as quality improvement, performance management, infectious diseases, epidemiology, diabetes, preparedness, and immunization. Materials are available in a variety of formats, including print, software, resource manuals, physician guides, and patient brochures.
LRC also specializes in promoting public health products. Contact Antoinette Barber if your organization would like to partner with LRC. |
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What's Hot This Month? |
The current hottest selling items in PHF's Learning Resource Center are:
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PHF Spotlight |
This compact encyclopedia includes 75 quality improvement tools and a glossary to help you fulfill your missions, apply for accreditation, improve the health of communities, and become more efficient and effective.
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PHF Website |
Explore www.phf.org, which features information on public health performance management and quality improvement, as well as programs, resources and tools, news, and events. Also explore the newest PHF Pulse Blog,
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