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DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION cdnotes Conferences The 18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education The 18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education will be held April 26–30, 2004, in Melbourne, Australia. The conference title “Valuing Diversity, Reshaping Power: Exploring Pathways for Health and Well-Being” highlights the need for broadly based partnerships in health development if global changes are to be addressed through health promotion. The World Conference will bring together the diverse international members of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education and new partners, and will provide state-of-the-art information across a range of health areas, methodologies, and population groups and settings. This conference is the only regular forum for a truly global exchange of views and information on health promotion and education. For more information, visit http://www.Health2004.com.au* or contact the meeting planners via e-mail at Health2004@meetingplanners.com.au. The next Steps to a HealthierUS Summit will take place April 29–30, 2004, in Baltimore, Maryland. Steps to a HealthierUS is a bold new initiative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that advances the President’s HealthierUS goal to help Americans live longer, better, healthier lives. The first national health summit was attended by more than 1,000 community leaders, policy makers, health officials, and others. The goal of the summit is to focus attention on prevention and promising approaches to promote health. For more information or to register, visit http://www.healthierus.gov/steps or call 202/690- 7054. “Lights, Camera, Call to Action: Spotlight on Oral Health!” is the theme of the next National Oral Health Conference, to be held Monday, May 3 through Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, California. This national meeting will highlight steps to improve oral health outlined in the U.S. Surgeon General’s A National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health. Sessions will include presentations on effective state and community programs and the latest scientific information related to oral health promotion and disease prevention, and will focus on ways to increase collaboration, overcome barriers to providing effective programs, and increase oral health workforce diversity, capacity, and flexibility. The conference is cosponsored by the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, the American Association of Public Health Dentistry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau. For more information about the conference, select meetings at the following Web sites: http://www.astdd.org* and http://www.aaphd.org.* The 2004 national conference will be held May 5–7, 2004, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference is “The Future of Health Promotion and Health Education: Transforming Vision into Reality.” The conference is sponsored by the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE), formerly ASTDHPPHE, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), and CDC. The conference will focus on innovative research and public health initiatives around five thematic areas: eliminating health disparities, health policy development, partnerships and collaboration, risk communication, and the translation of research into practical applications. For more information, e-mail Cynthia Morrison at CMMorrison@cdc.gov or Elaine Auld at EAuld@sophe.org. Information is also available at http://www.sophe.org.* CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation will hold its annual conference May 11–14, 2004, at the Fairmont Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. This conference brings together a varied constituency of local, state, federal, and territorial governmental agencies and private-sector diabetes partners. The conference sessions will explore science, policy, education, and program planning, implementation, and evaluation issues as part of the effort to eliminate the burden of diabetes. Please visit the conference Web site for diabetes information and updates: http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/conferences. Take Charge of Your Diabetes (Take Charge), 3rd Edition, 2003, is now available through CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation. Take Charge is an easy-to-read book with basic information and positive steps to help people with diabetes control their blood glucose and prevent diabetes complications. Readers are encouraged to work with their health care team to achieve and maintain glucose control and to get the necessary tests to monitor their diabetes and detect problems early. Readers are prompted to seek support from their family, friends, and community; to make healthy choices on a daily basis; and to give support to others in their community. This book is in the public domain. Anyone may reproduce any or all of the contents. It is available on the Internet at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/index.htm, or you can call toll free 877/CDC-DIAB (232-3422) for more information or a copy of this book and others. Take Charge is also available in Spanish. Both versions (Spanish and English) are available to eligible persons in Braille and a recorded format at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) at http://www.loc.gov/nls/. Communications Asthma Resources for School or Community Health Programs The American Lung Association, in cooperation with CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, launched the Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative (AFSI) in October 2003. The goal of AFSI is to help local communities, asthma coalitions, and lung associations assist schools in developing comprehensive asthma management plans and programs. The American Lung Association, in collaboration with national partners, also developed an Asthma-Friendly Schools Toolkit and Asthma Incident Reporter (AIR) database. The Asthma- Friendly Schools Toolkit is a guide to designing a custom comprehensive asthma management program. The AIR database is a case management database designed for school nurses to track students with asthma and can produce both individual reports and summary reports. All AFSI materials are free and may be modified for local implementation. All materials are available and can be downloaded from the American Lung Association Web site at http://www.lungusa.org.* For more information, call the American Lung Association at 800/Lung-USA. The STARBRIGHT Foundation, in cooperation with CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, developed the “Implementation Guide for School Use” as a companion document for STARBRIGHT’s “Quest for the Code,” an educational CD-ROM game for children and teens with asthma. This powerful tool instructs children to identify asthma triggers such as environmental tobacco smoke, addresses asthma management skills, and includes a three-dimensional tour of the lungs. The CD-ROM comes with a parent guide containing asthmarelated information and links to online resources. The parent guide and CD-ROM are in both English and Spanish. In addition, CDC funds are used to distribute the CD-ROM and Implementation Guide as a package. The Starbright Foundation develops products (including CD-ROMs on cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and diabetes) that empower seriously ill children to deal with health and emotional challenges and medical procedures. The “Quest for the Code” CD-ROM is free to parents and others (such as community or school health workers or administrators) who work with children with asthma. For more information, visit http://www.starbright.org* or call 800/315-2580. CDC has published an updated Guideline for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings, 2003. This two-part report (a major update of the 1993 CDC guidelines) consolidates recommendations for preventing and controlling infectious diseases and managing occupational health and safety issues related to infection control in dental settings. The guideline is designed to assist dental health care personnel in preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens, controlling infections associated with contaminated medical devices or surgical instruments, and preventing occupationally acquired infections. Part I provides a review of the scientific evidence regarding dental infection control issues, and Part II contains consensus evidence-based recommendations. The new guideline is available at http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/index.htm. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson introduced A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke at the Steps to a HealthierUS: Putting Prevention First Conference held in Baltimore in April 2003. The Action Plan is a public health strategy that provides health practitioners and policy makers with a blueprint to address both treatment and prevention of heart disease and stroke, the nation’s first and third leading causes of death and disability. The Action Plan describes the need for urgent action to prevent heart disease and stroke and also provides a framework for developing a health care system that supports both prevention and treatment of heart disease and stroke. Representatives from several organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Stroke Association, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and private-sector partners, will work with CDC to provide national leadership to implement the plan and reverse the epidemic of heart disease and stroke. For more information or free copies of the Action Plan, call 888/232-2306 (toll free inside the United States), e-mail ccdinfo@cdc.gov, or visit http://www.cdc.gov/cvh. On March 25, 2003, Secretary Tommy Thompson introduced a national plan to address the growing epidemic of diabetes in women. The National Agenda for Public Health Action: The National Public Health Initiative on Diabetes and Women’s Health is designed to mobilize the nation to address diabetes as a growing health concern. At this press conference, Secretary Thompson made the announcement among representatives from national organizations who are working to implement the initiative, including the cosponsoring organizations: CDC, the American Diabetes Association, and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/projects/women.htm. CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is pleased to announce the release of the 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) data. As the use of BRFSS data has increased, there has been a greater demand for local-level data. Although the BRFSS was designed to produce state-level estimates, growth in the sample size has allowed researchers to produce smaller-area prevalence estimates. This new analysis of 2002 BRFSS data has yielded estimates for 98 metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas. Estimates were also calculated for those counties within these 98 metropolitan and micropolitan areas in which there was a large enough sample size. For the first time, health officials will have access to local-level data that are comparable across the nation. This new use of BRFSS data fills a critical public health need for local area surveillance data to support targeted program implementation and evaluation, and can help local health officials plan and direct their prevention efforts. Please visit http://www.cdc.gov/brfss for more information. Information Sources Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is pleased to announce the release of the 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a unique, state-based surveillance system active in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Information on health risk behaviors, clinical preventive health practices, and health care access is obtained from a representative sample of noninstitutionalized adults, 18 years or older, in each state. The BRFSS provides flexible, timely, and ongoing data collection that allows for state-to-state and state-to-nation comparisons. State-specific data, including racial- and ethnicspecific data from the BRFSS, provide a sound basis for developing and evaluating public health programs, including programs targeted to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health risks. The BRFSS is the largest telephone-based surveillance system in the world: 247,977 interviews were conducted in 2002. The 2002 BRFSS data are located at http://www.cdc.gov/brfss. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Lina Balluz, Behavioral Surveillance Branch, at 770/488-2466. * Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link. |
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