Advocacy Priorities
2011 Advocacy Priorities
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- Retain Prevention and Public Health
- Seek opportunities for 3rd party reimbursement for professionally trained health educators
- Appropriations for CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Overall Division
- Healthy Communities Program
- Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program
- Division of Adolescent & School Health
- Reauthorization fo the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
- Support Udall (D-NM) amendment to ESEA to include health and physical education as core subjects
- Promote the Health Education Profession as a critical component to addressing the health crisis in our society
- Health literacy
- Health equity across all populations
- Tobacco prevention and control
- Environmental health/emergency preparedness
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