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Healthy Communities: One City at a Time

Our vision is to help children and their families maintain a healthy weight, increase access to healthy food options, and create safe environments for fun and healthy physical activity. Our strategy includes empowering community members to be agents of change and making the healthy choice the easy choice.

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Healthy Communities: One City at a Time

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  1. Healthy Communities: One City at a Time

  2. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy Our Vision: To help children and their families maintain a healthy weight, increase access to healthy food options and create safe environments for fun and healthy physical activity. Our Strategy: To empower community members to be agents of change by creating an environment where making the healthy choice is the easy choice.

  3. Healthy Communities:One City at a Time Strategy: Lay the ground work for advocacy in target communities, enhance collaborative efforts with CBO partners, establish quarterly meetings for advocates to move forward with place-based research Train teams of advocates, host workshops, create task forces, create policy briefs, train-the-trainer sessions, generate media attention Recruit and expand advocate numbers, conduct in-depth advocacy work, host community forums, create factsheets and tool kits for replication across Los Angeles County

  4. Cost of Obesity $41.2 billion: Cost to California for overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in 2006 $21.0 billion: Amount attributable to overweight and obesity $20.2 billion: Amountattributable to physical inactivity 50%: Percentage of total amount spent on health care in 2006 $12.8 billion (62%) health care costs attributed to overweight and obesity $7.9 billion (38%): related to physical inactivity $20.4 billion: Total lost productivity costs associated with overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in California in 2006 38%: Percentage of fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-grade public school students were considered overweight or obese in 2010 THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY, AND PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AMONG CALIFORNIA ADULTS — 2006 A study for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy - www.publichealthadvocacy.org A Patchwork of Progress: Changes in Overweight and Obesity Among California 5th, 7th, and 9th Graders, 2005-2010 A study for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy - www.publichealthadvocacy.org

  5. Thank you! For more information, please contact: California Center for Public Health Advocacy Rosa Soto, Regional Director Office: (626) 962-5900 Email: rs@publichealthadvocacy.org www.publichealthadvocacy.org

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