{"id":527,"date":"2008-06-10T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=527"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:45:35","slug":"us-partnership-to-fight-chronic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"US Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_GC-Jzmwe958\/SE7CCSHxpkI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/Wxv3aEVR1wg\/s1600-h\/catalog.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210315163394221634\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_GC-Jzmwe958\/SE7CCSHxpkI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/Wxv3aEVR1wg\/s320\/catalog.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightchronicdisease.org\/\">PFCD<\/a>) is a national, bi-partisan coalition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightchronicdisease.org\/about\/partners.cfm\" class=\"broken_link\">110<\/a> patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups, and health policy experts committed to raising awareness of the policies and practices that save lives and<br \/>reduce health costs through more effective prevention and management of chronic disease.<\/p>\n<div>The partnership is confronting chronic disease through:<br \/><strong>Educating<\/strong> the public about chronic diseases and potential solutions for individuals and communities<\/div>\n<div><strong>Mobilizing<\/strong> Americans to call for change in how governments, employers and health institutions approach chronic disease<br \/><strong>Challenging<\/strong> policymakers on the health policy changes that are necessary to effectively fight chronic disease<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>In June 2008 they published a comprehensive 171 page <a href=\"http:\/\/promisingpractices.fightchronicdisease.org\/uploads\/Best_Practice_Catalog.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Catalog of Successful Programs<\/a> listing proven and promissing interventions for the following 4 arenas Schools, Workplaces, Communities and Health Systems. The rather lengthy catalog is introduced in this <a href=\"http:\/\/promisingpractices.fightchronicdisease.org\/uploads\/Executive_Summary.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">excecutive summary<\/a>. Or use this <a href=\"http:\/\/promisingpractices.fightchronicdisease.org\/site\/page\/tools_resources\" class=\"broken_link\">web page<\/a> to find the programs relevant to you.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) is a national, bi-partisan coalition of 110 patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups, and health policy experts committed to raising awareness of the policies and practices that save lives andreduce health costs through more effective prevention and management of chronic disease. The partnership is confronting chronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}