Healthy Communities: One City at a Time 1

Our Vision: To help children and their families maintain a healthy weight, increase access to healthy food options and create safe environments for fun and healthy physical activity. Our Strategy: To empower community members to be agents of change by creating an environment where making the healthy choice is the easy choice. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy 2

Healthy Communities: One City at a Time Train teams of advocates, host workshops, create task forces, create policy briefs, train-the-trainer sessions, generate media attention Recruit and expand advocate numbers, conduct in-depth advocacy work, host community forums, create factsheets and tool kits for replication across Los Angeles County 3 Strategy: Lay the ground work for advocacy in target communities, enhance collaborative efforts with CBO partners, establish quarterly meetings for advocates to move forward with place-based research

Cost of Obesity $41.2 billion: Cost to California for overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in 2006 $21.0 billion: Amount attributable to overweight and obesity $20.2 billion: Amount attributable to physical inactivity 50%: Percentage of total amount spent on health care in 2006 $12.8 billion (62%) health care costs attributed to overweight and obesity $7.9 billion (38%): related to physical inactivity $20.4 billion: Total lost productivity costs associated with overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in California in %: Percentage of fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-grade public school students were considered overweight or obese in THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY, AND PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AMONG CALIFORNIA ADULTS — 2006 A study for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy - A Patchwork of Progress: Changes in Overweight and Obesity Among California 5 th, 7 th, and 9 th Graders, A study for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy -

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