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Building on What Works: Prevention in California. Manal J. Aboelata, MPH Managing Director Prevention Institute Prepared for the Senate Committee on Health Oversight Hearing Wednesday, February 12, 2014. www.preventioninstitute.org. Reframing. the nutrition & physical activity debate. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Manal J. Aboelata, MPHManaging DirectorPrevention Institute
Prepared for the Senate Committee on Health Oversight Hearing
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Building on What Works:Prevention in California
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Reframingthe nutrition & physical activity debate
...to corporate& governmentresponsibility
from simply a matter of individual choice...
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• California Parks and Recreation Society
• California Project LEAN • California WIC
Association • Child Care Food Program
Roundtable• Latino Health Access • PolicyLink• Prevention Institute• The Samuels Center
Steering Committee
PILM3020-12 11/02
• CANFIT: Communities, Adolescents, Nutrition, Fitness
• California Center for Public Health Advocacy
• California Food Policy Advocates
• California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
• Change Lab Solutions
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Photo Courtesy of Latino Health Access
Santa Ana, CA: We need parks!
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Photo Courtesy of Folsom-Cordova School District
Central Valley: We want healthy water !
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Chula Vista: We expect a safe community
“Reality and perception of violence causes justification for not being outside, letting children outside, and not walking to places that they
normally would,”
-Community Leader
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Baby Friendly Hospitals
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Everyone Deserves Safe Places to Play and Be Active
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“Violence is not the problem of one neighborhood or group…Coming together and owning this problem and the solutions are central.” -Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Harvard School of Public Health, UNITY Co-Chair
Focus on Safety
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HEALTHBEHAVIORBEHAVIOR
ENVIRONMENT
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Health in all Policies
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A good solution solvesmultipleproblems.Prevention Institute
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a systematic process that reduces the frequency and/or severity of illness or injury.
Promotes healthy environments and behaviors to prevent problems from occurring before the onset of symptoms
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$1
Return on Investment with Prevention
Investment
SOURCE: Prevention for A Healthy America: Investments in Disease Prevention Yield Significant Savings, Stronger Communities, Trust for America’s Health, July 2008
$5.60Return on Investment
Savings at 5 years
$16 Billion Annual SavingsIn 5 Years
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“There is one unexpected long-term option that can help our stalling
economy—reforming our health care system through enhanced prevention
and wellness.”
Tommy ThompsonFormer Secretary of Health and Human Services
September 2008
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Field Poll: “CA Voters Support…
• Nearly all voters support increasing the availability offresh drinking water in schools and other public areas
• Strong support for providing incentives and enacting policies to increase the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in low-income neighborhoods
• Six in ten voters attach high importance to covering exercise and other organized physical activities (like the YMCA or YWCA) under the state’s Medi-Cal program
Data provided courtesy of The California EndowmentField Poll data just released 2/12/14 conducted on behalf of The California Endowment
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Priority Actions
1.Apply a “health in all policies” lens to state-level decisions
2.Prioritize funding in most impacted communities
3.Convene statewide listening sessions
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People’s health is strongly influenced by the overall life odds of the neighborhood where they
live.Indeed, place matters. In many
low-income urban and rural communities, whole populations
areconsigned to shortened, sicker
lives.
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”Source: Prevention Institute. A Time of Opportunity: Local Solutions to Reduce Inequities in Health and Safety. 2009.
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Local Efforts Making the Movement
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