healthy communities: one city at a time 1. our vision: to help children and their families maintain...
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Healthy Communities: One City at a Time
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Our Vision: To help children and their families maintain a healthy weight, increase access to healthy food options and create safe environments for fun and healthy physical activity.
Our Strategy: To empower community members to be agents of change by creating an environment where making the healthy choice is the easy choice.
The California Center for
Public Health Advocacy
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Healthy Communities:One City at a Time
Train teams of advocates, host workshops, create task forces, create policy briefs, train-the-trainer sessions, generate media attention
Recruit and expand advocate numbers, conduct in-depth advocacy work, host community forums, create factsheets and tool kits for replication across Los Angeles County
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Strategy:Lay the ground work for advocacy in target
communities, enhance collaborative efforts with CBO partners, establish quarterly meetings for advocates to move forward with place-based research
Cost of Obesity
$41.2 billion: Cost to California for overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in 2006
$21.0 billion: Amount attributable to overweight and obesity
$20.2 billion: Amount attributable to physical inactivity
50%: Percentage of total amount spent on health care in 2006
$12.8 billion (62%) health care costs attributed to overweight and obesity
$7.9 billion (38%): related to physical inactivity
$20.4 billion: Total lost productivity costs associated with overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in California in 2006
38%: Percentage of fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-grade public school students were considered
overweight or obese in 2010
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THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY, AND PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AMONG CALIFORNIA ADULTS — 2006A study for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy - www.publichealthadvocacy.org
A Patchwork of Progress: Changes in Overweight and Obesity Among California 5 th, 7th, and 9th Graders, 2005-2010 A study for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy - www.publichealthadvocacy.org
Thank you!
For more information, please contact:
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Rosa Soto, Regional Director
Office: (626) 962-5900
Email: [email protected]
www.publichealthadvocacy.org
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