Tobacco use: targeting the nation's leading killer

The Burden of tobacco use -- CDC's responseTitle from title screen (viewed Mar. 16, 2010)Mode of access: Internet from the CDC web site

MMWR tobacco topics

pt. 1. Adult prevalence and cessation -- pt. 2. Youth initiation and prevalence -- pt. 3. Tobacco-attributable morbidity and mortality -- pt. 4. Policy -- pt. 5. Intervention.Includes bibliographical references

Promising practices in chronic disease prevention and control: a public health framework for action

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed this book to share its vision of how states and their partners can reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases and their risk factors by instituting comprehensive statewide programs. The recommendations for achieving this vision are based on prevention effectiveness research; program evaluations; and the expert opinions of national, state, and local leaders and public health practitioners, including CDC staff. In addition to describing some of the most promising practices available to state programs, the book provides numerous sources, including Web sites, that describe state and local examples of what can be achieved; state-of-the art strategies, methods, and tools; and training opportunities. We hope that this book will provide a framework that will help state and local health departments build new chronic disease prevention and control programs and enhance existing programs.On cover: Chronic Disease Prevention

Chronic disease . . . the public health challenge of the 21st century

"The United States spends significantly more on health care than any other nation. In 2006, our health care expenditure was over $7,000 per person, more than twice the average of 29 other developed countries. We also have one of the fastest growth rates in health spending, tripling our expenditures since 1990. Yet the average life expectancy in the United States is far below many other nations that spend less on health care each year. As a nation, more than 75% of our health care spending is on people with chronic conditions. These persistent conditions--the nation's leading causes of death and disability--leave in their wake deaths that could have been prevented, lifelong disability, compromised quality of life, and burgeoning health care costs." - p. 1"CS201478."Title from "cover" (viewed on March 4, 2009).Mode of access: Internet (Acrobat .pdf file: 2.02 MB, 18 p.).System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-16)

Healthy brain initiative : progress 2006-2011

"Cognitive health has only recently been recognized as an important issue for the public health system. Supported by a Congressional appropriation in fiscal year 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Alzheimer's-specific segment of CDC's Healthy Aging Program, referred to as The Healthy Brain Initiative. CDC then formed a partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, National Institute on Aging, Administration on Aging, AARP, and other public and private sector organizations to launch the activities of The Healthy Brain Initiative. Together these organizations embarked on a deliberative 18-month process to examine the current state of knowledge regarding the promotion and protection of cognitive health, to identify important knowledge gaps, and to define the unique role and contributions of public health." - p. 2"CS223946-A"Mode of access: World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (1.53 MB, 36 p.).Bibliography: Healthy Brain Initiative publications (p. 33).Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC Healthy Brain Initiative: Progress 2006-2011; Atlanta, GA: CDC; 2011

Chronic diseases and their risk factors

Preface -- Section 1. The Burden of chronic diseases as causes of death, United States -- Section 11. The Burden of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes, United States -- Section III. Risk factors and use of preventive services, United States -- Section IV. Chronic diseases, risk factors, and preventive services, by state -- Section V. The Burden of arthritis, United States -- Section VI. Appendix, CDC's chronic disease prevention and health promotion grants to states, and Technical Notes. (viewed 9/9/2002 via Internet)" ... formerly known as Chronic diseases and their risk factors"--Preface."February 2002."Also available online.Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198)

Pediatric nutrition surveillance, 1997 full report

Mode of access: Internet.Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-23).Also available on the World Wide Web

Profiles 2000

"Profiles 2000" at head of title page.Also available via the Internet as an Acrobat .pdf file.Includes bibliographical references, p.21-22

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System : at a glance 2010

"For 25 years, CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) has helped states survey U.S. adults to gather information about a wide range of behaviors that affect their health.The primary focus of these surveys has been on behaviors and conditions that are linked with the leading causes of death--heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and injury--and other important health issues." - p. 1"CS206284-C."Mode of access: World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (3.61 MB, 2 p.)

Use of World Health Organization and CDC growth charts for children aged 0-59 months in the United States

"In April 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new international growth charts for children aged 0--59 months. Similar to the 2000 CDC growth charts, these charts describe weight for age, length (or stature) for age, weight for length (or stature), and body mass index for age. Whereas the WHO charts are growth standards, describing the growth of healthy children in optimal conditions, the CDC charts are a growth reference, describing how certain children grew in a particular place and time. However, in practice, clinicians use growth charts as standards rather than references. In 2006, CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics convened an expert panel to review scientific evidence and discuss the potential use of the new WHO growth charts in clinical settings in the United States. On the basis of input from this expert panel, CDC recommends that clinicians in the United States use the 2006 WHO international growth charts, rather than the CDC growth charts, for children aged <24 months (available at https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts). The CDC growth charts should continue to be used for the assessment of growth in persons aged 2--19 years. The recommendation to use the 2006 WHO international growth charts for children aged <24 months is based on several considerations, including the recognition that breastfeeding is the recommended standard for infant feeding. In the WHO charts, the healthy breastfed infant is intended to be the standard against which all other infants are compared; 100% of the reference population of infants were breastfed for 12 months and were predominantly breastfed for at least 4 months. When using the WHO growth charts to screen for possible abnormal or unhealthy growth, use of the 2.3rd and 97.7th percentiles (or \uc2\ub12 standard deviations) are recommended, rather than the 5th and 95th percentiles. Clinicians should be aware that fewer U.S. children will be identified as underweight using the WHO charts, slower growth among breastfed infants during ages 3--18 months is normal, and gaining weight more rapidly than is indicated on the WHO charts might signal early signs of overweight."- p 1.Introduction -- Methods -- Creation of the WHO and CDC growth curves -- Rationale for recommendations -- Recommendations -- Use of recommended growth charts in clinical settings -- Recent WHO growth chart policies and publications -- Conclusion -- Referencesprepared by Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, Chris Reinold, Nancy F. Krebs."September 10, 2009."Cover title."The material in this report originated in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion." - p. 1Also available via the World Wide Web.Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-14)