1.1: Behavioral and Other Factors

Reduce behavioral and other factors that contribute to the development of chronic diseases

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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective: Prevention: - Support programs to train current practitioners and health professions students on how to incorporate disease prevention concepts into clinical practice. - Support the “Steps to a Healthier U.S.” Initiative to improve community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities. - Promote the use of early detection and screening services, especially through HHS-supported programs such as Medicare. - Support research to determine the causes of chronic diseases (such as asthma) and develop effective interventions to prevent their onset. - Disseminate information to providers about effective interventions that reduce the incidence and effects of chronic diseases, particularly asthma and diabetes. - Enable consumers to make informed decisions through enhanced communication of empirically-based health benefit/risk information associated with foods, drugs, and other medical products. Physical Activity and Diet: - Promote proper nutrition and regular physical exercise with a focus on public education, content labeling for foods, and nutritious meals for the elderly. - Support research to better understand the effects of nutrition and physical exercise, on health, and to better understand the factors that act as incentives or barriers to physical activity or healthy eating. - Study how changes in the physical environment affect levels of physical activity. Treatment - Provide patient information and training for health personnel on the care for chronic diseases, such as diabetes, to prevent the complications of the diseases. - Encourage the use of evidence-based chronic disease treatment protocols in health programs funded by the department. - Test the effectiveness of disease management models for the chronically ill Medicare population through disease management demonstrations. Environmental Conditions: - Provide assistance to states and tribes to develop and implement surveillance and prevention programs that reduce environmental and occupational health threats. - Support research to better understand the effects of environmental toxins on health, and develop more effective monitoring and prevention interventions. - Help enhance the capacity of other countries in risk assessment for, and in response to, toxic substances, hazardous wastes, and other forms of pollution introduced into the environment.

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