Partnership for Prevention

Overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions among Americans and result in an enormous toll of death, disease, disability, and reduced quality of life.

FACTS

• Childhood Obesity: What Congress Can Do (2008) — Testimony submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on Children & Families. Partnership highlights actions that the Subcommittee and Congress can take to reduce childhood obesity and calls for federal leadership.
   
• Action Guides to Increase Physical Activity (2008) — These three Action Guides, part of The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to Improve Community Health, promote physical activity by developing a community trail, establishing a community-based walking group program, and working with schools to enhance physical education classes. (To see a similar guide for establishing a community-based diabetes self-management education program, click here )
  • Places for Physical Activity: Facilitating Development of a Community Trail and Promoting Its Use to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth and Adults—An Action Guide
     
  • School-Based Physical Education: Working with Schools to Increase Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents in Physical Education Classes—An Action Guide
     
  • Social Support for Physical Activity: Establishing a Community-Based Walking Group to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth and Adults—An Action Guide
     
• Screening for Obesity (2006) — Partnership has posted extensive details about the health impact and cost effectiveness of obesity screening and other effective clinical preventive services on the home page for our 2006 report, Priorities for America's Health: Capitalizing on Life-Saving, Cost-Effective Preventive Services.
  

Government Resources

• Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (2008) — National guidelines describing the type and amount of physical activity recommended for Americans.

• National Diabetes Education Program
  • Power to Prevent: A Lifestyle Approach to Diabetes Prevention — A toolkit for health educators working with African Americans at risk for diabetes. Aims to prevent diabetes through lifestyle changes in diet and physical activity. Developed out of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP).
     
  • The Road to Health Toolkit — A toolkit for community health workers who work with African American and Latino/Hispanic populations at risk for diabetes. Promotes diabetes prevention through lifestyle changes in diet and physical activity.