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Our State's Approach

Public Health in Washington: Helping communities, schools, and businesses make changes to help people make healthy choices

More than 60 percent of people in Washington are overweight or obese (Click for definitions).  However, we didn’t get this way overnight. It has taken many years – obesity rates have continued to climb as our community environment has changed.

The way we live, where we live is our environment. To get healthy and stay healthy, our environment has to change. Changes in policy at the state, regional, and local levels are needed to improve the environments where we live, learn, work, and play.

Public health focuses on strategies to help change the system that makes us unhealthy. We call these environmental and policy changes (Click for definitions).

In 2003, the Washington State Department of Health was awarded funding by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make environmental and policy changes to improve the health of Washington’s people. Details can be found in the state plan.

The Department of Health has many partners to find ways for people to be physically activity and have easy access to healthy foods.

Partners in Action is a quarterly update about what organizations and communities in Washington are doing to make a difference.


 
Nutrition & Physical Activity State Plan
Access to Healthy Foods
Best Practices
Access to Physical Activity Opportunities
Other Chronic Disease Programs
Partners in Action
Related Information
Access to Healthy Foods Coalition

Nutrition and Physical Activity
Washington State Department of Health
111 Israel Road SE, P.O. Box 47855
Olympia, Washington, 98504-7855

Send inquires about the Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs to the Health Consumer Assistance Office.
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Last Update: 02/15/2012 05:01 PM