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A full summary of the workshop will be available in early 2015. Cross-Sector Collaboration The 2012 IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention laid out an inspirational vision of healthy children, healthy families, and healthy communities in which all people develop the competencies required to interact successfully with their environments, said Nicolas Pronk, vice president for health management and chief science officer for HealthPartners, Inc., in his introductory remarks at the workshop.
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They bring together people, financing, capacity building, and metrics to promote socially responsible development that intentionally sets desired outcome goals and holds stakeholders accountable for the outcomes. In recent years, the community development and public health fields have begun to find common ground as understanding grows of those ingredients needed to create a healthy community: housing, human services, transportation, food systems, and environmental sustainability.
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As the two meet, community development partners are able to teach those in the public health field how to build more sustainable initiatives and consider how to break down societal challenges such as obesity into granular solutions and transactions. For example, Hinkle-Brown described how TRF helped finance a development in an area of limited food access that includes both a grocery store and a federally qualified health center (FQHC)
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In 2011, the Council released the National Prevention Strategy, which lays out four strategic directions: healthy and safe community environments, clinical and community preventive services, empowered people, and the elimination of health disparities. Of seven priority areas specified by the Council, two -- healthy eating and active living -- are directly related to obesity solutions.
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This program operates from the view that the obesity epidemic is driven by poverty, structural racism, social class, poor education systems, and poor access to healthy foods -- barriers that disproportionately affect people of color. Bloyd noted that during the twentieth century, federal and local housing policies created Cook County neighborhoods deeply segregated by race.
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Croix Valley region straddling Minnesota and Wisconsin. Launched in 2013 by HealthPartners, Inc., and Lakeview Health, the endeavor harnesses the resources and social capital of 13 different sectors and 130 community advisors representing health care, schools, early childhood programs, parents, business, civic organizations, and faith community groups, among others.
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For example, STCT worked with local non-tribal public schools to help them build capacity and infrastructure to form coordinated school health teams and conduct assessments of their environments. Norkoli reported that the Sault Tribe also has provided funding to local government agencies to collaboratively create nonmotorized transportation plans that make streets safer and friendlier for walking and biking.
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Melvin Ming Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Sports Medicine; Sesame Workshop, New York, NY American Council on Exercise; American Heart Association; Leon Andrews National League of Cities, Shellie Pfohl American Society for Nutrition; Bipartisan Policy Center; Blue Cross Washington, DC President's Council on Fitness, Sports, Blue Shield of North Carolina; ChildObesity180/Tufts University; & Nutrition, Rockville, MD Edelman; General Mills, Inc.; Greater Rochester Health Foundation; Shavon Arline-Bradley National Association for the Barbara Picower HealthPartners, Inc.; Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation; Advancement of Colored People, The JPB Foundation, New York, NY Highmark, Inc.; The JPB Foundation; Kaiser Permanente; Kellogg Baltimore, MD Company; The Kresge Foundation; Mars, Inc.; Nemours Foundation; Nicolas P Pronk CAPT Heidi Michels Blanck HealthPartners, Inc., Minneapolis, MN Nestlé Nutrition; Nestlé USA; The Obesity Society; Partnership Centers for Disease Control and Amelie G
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