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Equity and Enhanced Individual and Community Resilience Are Integral to a Meaningful Recovery

Posted on January 27, 2022 by ODPHP

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Health and well-being are essential to individual and community resilience and thriving. Promoting enhanced individual and community resilience is foundational to equitable long-term recovery and resilience for the nation. It is also central to ODPHP’s mission of encouraging all Americans to lead healthy and active lives.

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Reaching Kids Where They Are — Classroom-Based Interventions to Increase Physical Activity

Posted on January 24, 2022 by ODPHP

In this post, the author describes recommendations from the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) for classroom- and school-based interventions to increase physical activity.

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Healthy People 2030 Seeks Public Input on Proposed New Objectives

Posted on December 3, 2021 by ODPHP

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HHS is seeking written comments on 3 proposed new objectives for Healthy People 2030. HHS invites members of the public — both individuals and organizations — to provide comments about the objectives for HHS to consider. These would be the first new objectives added to Healthy People 2030 since its launch in August 2020.

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Diabetes Is Not Just An Outcome

Posted on November 9, 2021 by ODPHP

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Diabetes is not just an outcome. Rather, it is a condition that also contributes to, and is impacted by, myriad conditions — physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic. The scale of the problem and the pace with which diabetes is becoming more prevalent across the United States means that everyone, in all sectors of society, must take note and act with greater urgency.

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