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International Walk to School Day, Oct. 5
Today is Walk to School Day, and children, parents, teachers and community leaders in all 50 states are dusting off their sneakers, getting out their bikes and taking part.
Walking to school is an easy way to address three of the many factors that influence the overall health of a community:
1. Integrating physical activity into daily routines can help combat obesity and prevent chronic disease.
Internet-based tobacco cessation interventions
Use websites, computer programs, and other electronic means to provide information, strategies, or behavioral support to tobacco users who want to quit, sometimes with counseling or pharmacotherapy
Interpreting Trend Graphs
This tool (from CHR&R) provides additional guidance for interpreting trend graphs included in your County Health Snapshot.
Intervention Planning Matrix
This tool (from the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute) is a worksheet designed to help you consider strategies that could be utilized to address the identified health issue at the individual, organization/institution, and community levels.
Intervention Planning Matrix: Activity to support learning
This downloadable PowerPoint slide deck lays out an activity to use with your partners to practice using the Intervention Planning Matrix.
Introducing a new approach to county health data
This year, we’re introducing a new approach and sharper tools to help you understand how long and how well people are living in counties across the nation.
Introducing a new model of health
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s model of health focuses on how power and society’s rules—such as laws, policies and worldviews—shape health and well-being.
Introducing a new way to view county health data
Over the last decade, CHR&R ranked the health of counties within states, providing a simple way to understand differences in health. We have replaced that method with a sharper tool that allows comparisons of a county’s health with other counties, whether that’s in the same state or across the nation.
Introducing: Civic health
In Solidarity is back for a brand-new series exploring the connections between our civic health, our individual health and the health of our communities. We’re bringing you eight interviews with equity experts and authors Daniel Dawes, Dr. Peniel Joseph, Dr. Erika Blacksher, Dr. Julia Kaufman, Dr. Solange Gould, Aliya Bhatia, Jeanne Ayers and Dawn Hunter.
Introducing In Solidarity: Connecting power, place and health
Welcome to the launch of In Solidarity: Connecting Power, Place and Health. In this debut episode, hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver introduce themselves and the theme for the podcast: social solidarity. Burroughs-Girardi and Silver explore how our lives and fates are interconnected, whether obvious or not. And they discuss how the two of them discovered a connection that shaped their lives before they were even born.
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