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Web-Based Tools for Policy Change: The Environmental Nutrition and Activity (ENACT) Local Policy Database Linda Shak, MSW World Cancer Congress Conference August 30, 2012 www.preventioninstitute.org Oakland, CA Born in West Oakland, an

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www.preventioninstitute.org

Linda Shak, MSW

World Cancer Congress Conference August 30, 2012

Web-Based Tools for Policy Change: The Environmental Nutrition and Activity (ENACT) Local Policy Database

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Oakland, CA

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Born in West Oakland, an African-American person can expect to die almost 15 years earlier than a White person born in the Oakland Hills.

SOURCE: Life and Death from Unnatural Causes – Health and Social Inequity in Alameda County. Alameda County Public Health Department. August 2008

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MOVING UPSTREAM

“We are sti till sta tanding 


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the bank of th the 
 riv river, rescu er, rescuin ing 
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 21st t centu tury ta task.”

Gloria Steinem

Photo Source: http://static.flickr.com/90/207590972_a30260c293_b.jpg

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What’s Health Got To Do With It?

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Photo Courtesy of Andrew Seidenberg

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Photo courtesy of Latino Health Access

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Photo courtesy of Latino Health Access

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Is it just individual choice?

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The health th inequiti ties we see are th the embodied expressions of social inequality

  • ty. They are not

t about t just t individual bad choices: th they are about t th things not t being fair.

Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health

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HEA EALTH & SAFET ETY Y

BEH EHAVIOR BEH EHAVIOR

EN ENVIRONMEN ENT

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It is is unr unreas easona

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ble to

  • expect

xpect tha hat people people will ill change hange their heir beha behavior ior eas easil ily when hen so

  • many

many for

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cultur ural, al, and and phy physical ical en envir ironment

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cons conspir pire e agains gainst suc uch h change. hange.

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Institute of Medicine

Source: Institute of Medicine. (2000). Promoting health: Intervention strategies from social and behavioral research (B. D. Smedley & L. S. Syme, Eds.). Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

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Useful policy is

  • ften developed locally

One Key Fact:

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Promising Practices in Nutrition and Physical Activity Catalogues promising policies in nutrition and activity at the local level

Local Policy Database

http://preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies/!

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www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies

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www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies

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www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies

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www.preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies

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Complet

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e Street eets Polic

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La#Crosse#County,#WI #

Photo credit: Matt Picio via flickr (flickruser: Matt.Picio)

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Healt Healthy hy Polic

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Photo by Tim Wagner/HEAC

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Sant anta a Clar lara a Count

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Pitt County, NC

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“. . .We could use this place as a place to play sports.! We don’t get to interact as much because we don’t have places to

  • play. The bond is broken. We could

build a park so that kids my age can stay active healthy and connected.”!

Daisy Romero, Age 13 ! Photo Voice Project, Santa Ana, CA !

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Support Local Agriculture

Woodbury County, Iowa

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Local Local Produce

  • duce Procur
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ement

Jefferson#County#Public#Schools,#Louisville,#KY #

Photo Courtesy of San Francisco Food Systems

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Health and Equity in all Policies

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Don't expect politicians, even good ones, to do your job for you. Politicians are like weather

  • vanes. Our job is to make

the wind blow.

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David Brower, environmentalist

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Photo credit: Emily Barney

TOOLS.

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Promising Practices in Nutrition and Physical Activity Catalogues promising policies in nutrition and activity at the local level

Local Policy Database

http://preventioninstitute.org/sa/policies/!

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ENACT

Environmental Nutrition & Activity Community Tool

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