The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a non-profit organization founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, is searching for young people excited to share their commitment to healthy living and inspire their friends, families, schools and communities to take action and help stop childhood obesity.
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Every day, parents and other caregivers are confronted with myriad questions and situations that not only are challenging and unanticipated, but for which they are unprepared.
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Webinar Examined State Trends & Upcoming Issues on Obesity & Related Chronic Diseases
The STOP Obesity Alliance hosted a webinar on Tuesday, December 6, in which experts discussed state legislative activities related to obesity and weight-related chronic disease that could signal broader trends in the future. Click here to view the webinar.
The voice of America’s health insurers, America’s Health Insurance Plans aims to provide a unified voice for the health care financing industry, to expand access to high quality, cost effective health care to all Americans …
The American Diabetes Association is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes and fighting for those affected by diabetes.
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency that provides cardiovascular research, information and advocacy and whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
The American Medical Group Association represents medical groups, including some of the nation’s largest, most prestigious integrated health care delivery systems and advocates for the multispecialty medical group model of health care delivery…
Canyon Ranch Institute catalyzes the possibility of optimal health for all people by translating the best practices of Canyon Ranch and its partners to help educate, inspire, and empower every person to prevent disease and embrace a life of wellness.
The National Business Group on Health is the national voice of large employers dedicated to finding innovative and forward-thinking solutions to the nation’s most important health care issues.
National Quality Forum works to improve the quality of American health care by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.
The Obesity Action Coalition is a non‐profit patient organization dedicated to educating and advocating on behalf of those affected by obesity, morbid obesity and childhood obesity.
Partnership for Prevention’s mission is to improve health by preventing illness and injury and by promoting health. Its programs increase the priority on prevention in health-related policy and in the U.S. health care system.
The Service Employees International Union, an organization of more than 1.8 million members, is dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society.
The Care Continuum Alliance promotes the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for individuals with chronic conditions and those at risk of developing chronic conditions.
The Obesity Society is the leading scientific organization dedicated to the study of obesity. The Obesity Society has been committed to encouraging research on the causes and treatment of obesity and is keeping the medical community and public informed of new advances.
The Reality Coalition is a group of esteemed experts on obesity, nutrition, diabetes and healthcare policy who share the common goal of advancing an agenda for realistic approaches to weight loss to achieve improved public health.
Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community, and working to make disease prevention a national priority.