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From the Editor
Editor's Notes Jan/Feb 2012
A Billion and Change in
Federal Grants for Health Promotion
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Abstract
The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services announced $1.01 billion in
funding opportunities for health
promotion in fiscal year 2011 and
selected winners for the first phase of
these programs. These included $100
million over 5 years for 10 state
Medicaid programs to develop
incentive-based strategies, $900 million
for 61 community-level programs through
the Community Transformation Grants, and
nearly $10 million to help employers
develop comprehensive workplace programs.
Despite all of the partisan wrangling
on health care reform and the budget
deficit ceiling fight, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
was able to announce $1.01 billion in
grant-funding opportunities for health
promotion before the September 30, 2011
end of 2011 fiscal year. All of these
emerged from programs created by the
Affordable Care Act. The grant
opportunities, grant recipients, and
some thoughts on the strengths and
weaknesses of these opportunities are
summarized below.
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April 11-15,
2012
The Manchester Hyatt
San Diego, CA
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Making
Healthy Choices the Easiest
Choices:Increasing Awareness,
Enhancing Motivation, Building
Skills, and Creating Supportive
Environments
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Keynotes Announced |
Registration Now Open |
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How to Change Anything Using
Multiple Sources of Influence
David Maxfield
Vice President
of Research, VitalSmarts
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Health Impact of Social
Equality and Opportunity
Richard Wilkinson
Professor
Emeritus of Social Epidemiology,
University of Nottingham, UK
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Can We
Reduce Our Federal Deficit and
Create Jobs by Making the
Healthy Choice the Easiest
Choice?
Michael P. O'Donnell,
PhD, MPH, MBA
Editor in
Chief, American Journal of
Health Promotion
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Definition of Health Promotion
Health Promotion is the art and science of
helping people discover the synergies between
their core passions and optimal health,
enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal
health, and supporting them in changing their
lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal
health. Optimal health is a dynamic balance of
physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and
intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be
facilitated through a combination of learning
experiences that enhance awareness, increase
motivation, and build skills and, most
important, through the creation of opportunities
that open access to environments that make
positive health practices the easiest choice.
O’Donnell MP. Definition of health promotion
2.0: embracing passion, enhancing motivation,
recognizing dynamic balance, and creating
opportunities. Am J Health Promot. 2009
Sept-Oct;24(1):iv.
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Physical |
Fitness.
Nutrition. Medical self-care. Control of substance abuse. |
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Emotional |
Care for
emotional crisis. Stress Management |
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Social |
Communities.
Families. Friends |
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Intellectual |
Educational.
Achievement. Career development |
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Spiritual |
Love. Hope.
Charity. |
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Our definition of health promotion guides the editorial content
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