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

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

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

A National action plan for cancer survivorship: advancing public health strategies

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."This publication was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U57/CCU 623066-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the U.S. government." - p. iiAlso available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (1.12 MB, 88 p.)Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69)

Pediatric nutrition surveillance, 1997 full report

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

Profiles 2004

Jo Anne Grunbaum, Jennifer Di Pietra, Tim McManus, Joseph Hawkins, Laura Kann."Profiles 2004" at head of title page.Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-45).Grunbaum JA, Di Pietra J, McManus T, Hawkins J, Kann L. School Health Profile: Characteristics of Health Programs Among Secondary Schools (Profiles 2004). Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005

Women and heart disease: an atlas of racial and ethnic disparities in mortality

Michele L. Casper ... [et al.] ; Office for Social Environment and Health Research, West Virginia University [and] National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Includes bibliographical references and index

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)