INFLUENCING POLICIES

ENACT STRATEGY: Promote High Standards
Promote high standards of nutrition and physical activity practice to healthcare and provider associations

Healthcare and provider associations play an invaluable role in promoting high standards of nutrition and physical activity in communities. By encouraging healthy eating and active lifestyles, healthcare organizations focus on the prevention of chronic disease rather than treatment. This shift in perspective is necessary to raise the standards for healthy, active living.

Characteristics

• The term “state-of-the-art“ should not only be limited to medical technology, but also be applied to prevention strategies.
• Standard medical procedures should include preventive approaches including screening and counseling.

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Programs

The Office of Prevention Services at the Arizona Department of Health Services

A model effort to provide prevention services and strategies.

The University of Pittsburgh Prevention Center

A state-of-the-art health center that focuses on preventive medicine measures.

The Colon Cancer Prevention Center

This center at Hackensack University Medical Center offers a preventive medical approach that includes screening and counseling for this diet- and lifestyle-related disease.

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Tools

The Role of Midlife and Older Consumers In Promoting Physical Activity Through Health Care Settings (PDF)

This report outlines recommendations for consumers, health care providers, health systems, the research community, and the media to influence physical activity interventions in the health care environment.

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