Healthy States eWeekly from The Council of State Governments Aug. 31 - Sept. 6, 2006 UPCOMING CSG EVENTS - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Forum for State Legislators and State Policymakers: Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Childhood and Beyond Sept. 17-19, 2006, Memphis, Tenn. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS - Delaware: State Program Aims to Reduce Household Causes - National: Battle Against the Bulge - New Jersey: Fruitful Lessons: N.J. Schools Update Nutrition Rules and Cafeteria Menus - Pennsylvania: Snacks, Soft Drinks Banished as Schools Focus on Nutrition - Virginia: Kaine Considers Ban on Smoking in State Buildings REPORT SPOTLIGHT - F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2006 RESOURCES - NEW! Healthy States Initiative: State Official's Guide to Wellness - NEW! TrendsAlert: Costs of Chronic Disease: What Are States Facing? - Issue Brief - Preventing Diabetes and Its Complications: What Works in the Hispanic Community - Emergency Preparedness: The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act - The Community Guide: A Resource for Legislators and Policymakers - Healthy States Quarterly - Web Conferences for State Legislators Main Category: Health Data Tools and Statistics National Women's Health Indicators Database http://www.4woman.gov/statedata/ National, regional, state and county data are available by gender, race, ethnicity, and age. You can make your own custom tables, graphs, and maps. Main Category: Health Data Tools and Statistics Work-Related Injury Statistics Query System - Work-RISQS http://www2a.cdc.gov/risqs/ Work-RISQS provides a web-based public access query system for obtaining national estimates (number of cases) and rates (number of cases per hours worked) for nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments. Users may interactively query based on demographic characteristics, nature of injury/illness, and incident circumstances. Main Category: Literature and Guidelines Improving Public Health Performance: Exploring Agency Accreditation http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/featureDetail.jsp?featureID=708&type=3 RWJF is helping local and state public health leaders to develop new tools to measure and improve performance. As part of this goal, the team is working with partners in public health to explore public health agency accreditation as a possible strategy to improve and enhance the capacity of  state and local public health agencies. RWJF commissioned two papers on this topic. Main Category: News Census Bureau Releases Annual Estimates of Poverty Rates and Health Insurance Coverage http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/005647.html [UTF-8?]Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and 2004 at $44,389, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, the nation’s official poverty rate rose from 12.5 percent in 2003 to 12.7 percent in 2004. The percentage of the nation’s population without health insurance coverage remained stable, at 15.7 percent in 2004. Main Category: News FDA Offers Valuable Food Safety Information for Hurricane Katrina Aftermath http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2005/NEW01224.html As Hurricane Katrina hits Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants area residents to be prepared for the aftermath. FDA is providing important tips to help people affected by this storm to protect their health and food supply. Main Category: News New Report Finds Improvements in Oral Health of Americans http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050825.htm The oral health status of Americans has significantly improved during the past decade, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). OTHER NEWSLETTERS • RWJF News Digest: Childhood Obesity • PE4life Newsletter - August 2005 • August Issue of Pediatrics Includes First-Year Results of VERB Campaign • What’s New from the Guide to Community Preventive Services • State Actions to Promote Nutrition, Increase Physical Activity and Prevent Obesity: A Legislative Overview • Urban, Rural, and Regional Variations in Physical Activity (PDF) • The Impact of the Built Environment on Walking as a Leisure-Time Activity Along the U.S./Mexico Border (PDF) • Occupational Physical Activity: Reliability and Comparison of Activity Levels (PDF) • NAHF Announces New Era Of Support For Its Network Of State And Governor's Councils (PDF)

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