LA County Public Health - Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention

THE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT

On September 27, 2011 the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) was notified of a $9.8 million grant award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Community Transformation Grants (CTG) initiative. The funding will support the first year of a planned five-year initiative to prevent chronic disease and reduce health disparities in the county population through interventions that create healthy and safe environments and improve access to evidence-based clinical preventive services.

For more information about the DPH's grant by, click here.

For additional information on CTG and the other awardees , click here.

Public Health Receives Unprecedented $32 Million Award

On March 19, 2010 the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH), announced the receipt of an unprecedented amount of funding for public health efforts addressing chronic disease in the county. The grant, from the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative, gives LA County approximately $32 million over a two-year period for activities addressing obesity, physical activity, nutrition, tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke. The projects will focus on making policy, systems, and environmental changes that positively impact an individual's access to safe places to exercise and ability to purchase nutritional foods, and an individual's right to smoke-free living, working, and social spaces.

For more information about the CDC grant, click here.

For more information about DPH’s Renewing Environments for Nutrition, Exercise and Wellness (RENEW) Request for Proposals (RFP), click here.

More information about Public Health's projects will be released as details are finalized.

	2007 Data Resources The Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention releases a report describing the various data sources on chronic disease surveillance and research, generated and/or used by the Division to assess public health issues and to develop more effective programs and policies for chronic disease prevention and control. To read the full report, click here.

	Menu Labeling as a Potential Strategy for Combating the Obesity Epidemic Public Health releases a report showing that posting calorie information on restaurant menus can help consumers make better health choices when eating out. To read the full report, click here

	Preventing Childhood Obesity: the Need to Create Healthy Places. A Cities and Communities Health Report Public Health releases a report presenting data on the prevalence of childhood obesity for 128 cities and communities in Los Angeles County. Cities and communities were ranked in terms of highest-to-lowest obesity prevalence and by level of economic hardship. To read the full report, click here

Chronic Disease Programs