Steps to a HealthierUS - 607.778.3929
The Steps to a HealthierUS program implements community-based initiatives to promote better health and prevent disease. The Steps partnership in Broome County envisions a community where health is a priority, active living is promoted, disease is prevented and residents naturally engage in behaviors that lead to longer and healthier lives by reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity and asthma and addressing three related risk factors: physical inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use.

Steps To A HealthierNY is part of a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative entitled Steps To A HealthierUS, launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2003. This five year cooperative agreement program aims to help Americans live healthier, longer, and better lives by reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity and asthma and addressing three related risk factors- physical inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use.

Broome County is part of a four county project lead by the New York State Department of Health through funding from the Centers for Disease Control. Only 12 projects in the nation were awarded funding in the first year of the Steps initiative to implement school and community-based initiatives that enhance and expand existing, evidenced based efforts in our community to promote policy development, implementation and environmental change. As a result of this initiative, it is hopeful that Broome County residents will take personal responsibility for their health and empower the community to take social responsibility to adopt healthy lifestyles and reduce the burden of chronic diseases.

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