High Obesity Program
CDC announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 funds to implement CDC-RFA-DP18-1809:
High Obesity Program.
The growing body of evidence suggests that obesity is one of the most significant challenges facing the public health system.
If this continues, obesity and the many complications it causes will increase the disease burden in the United States.
Poor nutrition and low levels of physical activity affect overall health and are significant risk factors for obesity and other chronic diseases.
Obesity in the United States affects 7 8. 6 million (35%) adults and 1 2. 7 million (17%) children and accounts for approximately $147 billion in annual health care costs.
The burden of obesity and other chronic diseases negatively affects our nation's businesses, economy, and military readiness and is higher among certain racial/ethnic populations and geographical locations.
This five-year program provides resources for land grant universities to leverage community extension services to implement evidence-based strategies that increase access to places that provide healthier foods and safe and accessible places for physical activity in counties with an adult obesity rate of over 40%.
High Obesity Program.
The growing body of evidence suggests that obesity is one of the most significant challenges facing the public health system.
If this continues, obesity and the many complications it causes will increase the disease burden in the United States.
Poor nutrition and low levels of physical activity affect overall health and are significant risk factors for obesity and other chronic diseases.
Obesity in the United States affects 7 8. 6 million (35%) adults and 1 2. 7 million (17%) children and accounts for approximately $147 billion in annual health care costs.
The burden of obesity and other chronic diseases negatively affects our nation's businesses, economy, and military readiness and is higher among certain racial/ethnic populations and geographical locations.
This five-year program provides resources for land grant universities to leverage community extension services to implement evidence-based strategies that increase access to places that provide healthier foods and safe and accessible places for physical activity in counties with an adult obesity rate of over 40%.
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Outreach Programs to Reduce the Prevalence of Obesity in High Risk Rural Areas
Department of Health and Human Services
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP
Estimated Funding: $56,000,000
Office: Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP
Estimated Funding: $56,000,000
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Collections_and_Resources.html
Additional Information of Eligibility:
· Land Grant Universities located in states with eligible counties are eligible to apply for funding.
· No more than one land grant university per state will receive funding.
A table of the eligible counties, defined as "counties with over 40% adult obesity rate based on Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Systems Data (2015)" is provided below: Source data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, CDC, 2015* - counties with over 40% adult obesity rate State County 2015 Estimate Alabama Barbour County 42.7 Bullock County 41.0 Conecuh County 41.8 Dallas County 42.4 Escambia County 40.5 Greene County 45.1 Lowndes County 45.5 Macon County 44.2 Marengo County 40.7 Monroe County 40.3 Perry County 41.3 Sumter County 42.4 Wilcox County 44.5 Arkansas Chicot County 40.5 Crittenden County 42.1 Lee County 42.3 Mississippi County 40.2 Phillips County 41.8 St.
Francis County 43.2 Georgia Calhoun County 42.2 Clay County 42.8 Dooly County 40.9 Stewart County 40.5 Taliaferro County 40.1 Kentucky Martin County 40.2 McCreary County 40.5 Louisiana Assumption Parish 41.1 Claiborne Parish 41.4 East Carroll Parish 46.2 Madison Parish 43.4 Morehouse Parish 40.5 St.
Helena Parish 41.9 Tensas Parish 41.8 Mississippi Claiborne County 41.7 Holmes County 42.6 Humphreys County 44.4 Issaquena County 41.1 Jefferson County 46.6 Jefferson Davis County 40.0 Leflore County 40.1 Noxubee County 40.7 Quitman County 41.5 Sharkey County 41.9 Sunflower County 40.4 Washington County 41.2 Missouri Mississippi County 40.7 Nebraska Thurston County 42.6 North Dakota Rolette County 40.9 Sioux County 42.6 Oklahoma Adair County 41.3 Muskogee County 40.6 South Carolina Hampton County 40.3 Lee County 40.1 Marion County 40.3 South Dakota Buffalo County 40.5 Ziebach County 44.3 Tennessee Hardeman County 40.8 Texas Brooks County 43.6 Hudspeth County 42.0 Loving County 41.4 Maverick County 41.9 Starr County 43.2 Webb County 40.2 Willacy County 41.9 Zapata County 40.8 Zavala County 40.9 Virginia Petersburg city 41.7 West Virginia Clay County 40.6 McDowell County 41.4 Wisconsin Menominee County 42.8 *“Source data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, CDC, 2015.
Small area estimates derived from methodology described in: Zhang X et.
al.
Multilevel Regression and Poststratification for Small-Area Estimation of Population Health Outcomes: A Case Study of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Prevalence Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
American Journal of Epidemiology.
2014;179(8):1025-1033.”
Full Opportunity Web Address:
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Date Posted:
2018-05-08
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Archive Date:
2018-08-08
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