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July Health Observances

 

National Park and Recreation Month
 
Since 1985, the National Recreation and Park Association has designated the month of July as Park and Recreation Month. Recreation facilities and parks across the country annually use July to celebrate the kick-off of summer programming as well as a time to pull their communities together to volunteer, get involved in great outdoor physical activities and advocate for parks and recreation.
  
For more information on Park and Recreation Month, visit www.nrpa.org.

MAKE STRIDES! - Steps to a HealthierMN Newsletter

View or download the May/June issue of MAKE STRIDES! - The Steps to a HealthierMN Newsletter.  Visit the Minnesota page under Communications and Marketing for archived issues of the newsletter.

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July Calendar

 

Download the month of July from the 2008 Steps to a HealthierMN calendar. 

 

Health Programs in Six Languages

 

The Emergency and Community Health Outreach (ECHO) collaborative, Steps to a Healthier Minneapolis and Steps to a Healthier St. Paul have created three health programs for individuals with limited English proficiency:

  • Understand Asthma (Asthma & Respiratory Diseases)
  • Get Fit, Eat Smart and Be Well! (Nutrition and Exercise)
  • Put an End to Hidden Diabetes (Diabetes Prevention and Control)

These three programs are available on language-specific DVDs in Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.  Each program is subtitled in English. The Diabetes Prevention and Control program, which was developed in cooperation with the Minnesota Diabetes Program at the Minnesota Department of Health, is also included in English on each of the DVDs. 

 

To order free copies of the DVDs and a discussion guide for use in your community, school, health clinic or church, visit http://www.health.state.mn.us/diabetes/echodvd.

 

 
Steps to a Healthier US

The Steps to a HealthierUS Initiative is an overall effort of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), designed to identify and promote programs that encourage small behavior changes to reduce the burden of chronic disease.

 

A centerpiece of the Steps Initiative is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Steps to a HealthierUS Cooperative Agreement Program.  It is a five-year program that funds states, cities and tribal entities to implement chronic disease prevention efforts.  These efforts focus on reducing the burden of obesity, diabetes and asthma, and on the related risk factors of physical inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use. 

 

Click here for more information about Steps to a HealthierUS.
 
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