Health Impacts

Healthy Living in Loudoun County Guide

Loudoun County created this resource guide to highlight their local work on healthy living and chronic disease prevention services as part of the CPHMC project. This guide provides contact information […]

Staying Healthy in Loudoun County Resource Guide

Loudoun County created this resource guide to highlight their local work on chronic disease prevention. This guide provides contact information for medical, mental health, family planning, insurance and recreation services/resources. […]

Loudoun County’s “It’s Water Time!” Program

Loudoun County created this toolkit to highlight their local work on water consumption in preschool and elementary school classrooms as part of the CPHMC project. The “It’s Water Time!” water […]

DHD #10 Oceana County Resource Guide: English & Spanish

District Health Department #10 created this resource guide as part of their local work on chronic disease prevention during the CPHMC project. This resource guide includes nutrition information including the […]

Altarum Institute CPHMC Evaluation Report: Cohort #2

NWA contracted with Altarum’s Center for Food and Nutrition to conduct an evaluation of Cohorts 1 and 2 to understand the CPHMC project experience and factors that facilitated or hindered […]

Wichita Rx Pad for Healthy Habits

Wichita County created this non-pharmaceutical prescription pad as part of their local work on chronic disease prevention during the CPHMC project. This pad incorporates the 5 + 2 + 1 […]

Angelina County Healthy Living Resource Guide

Angelina County created this guide to highlight their local work promoting chronic disease prevention during the CPHMC project. This healthy living guide defines and provides ideas for preventing and managing […]

A Community-Based Intervention Program’s Effects on Dietary Intake Behaviors

"The intervention helped low-income young mothers with overweight or obesity improve social cognitive factors related to lifestyle change. Intervention participants ate less fat and fast food over the short term. However, the intervention was not effective in helping these mothers eat more fruits and vegetables or drink fewer sugar-sweetened beverages in the short term."

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity as a Winnable Battle-Reply

studies from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have demonstrated decreases in the prevalence of obesity among 3- to 23-month-old infants and toddlers and among 2- to 4-year-old children enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children

Food- and Health-Related Correlates of Self-Reported Body Mass Index Among Low-Income Mothers of Young Children

Shopping practices to stretch food dollars, using community food assistance programs, and HFI correlated with heavier maternal BMIs; higher self-rated health corresponded to lower BMIs.