CDC's Chronic Disease Prevention System
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What We Do
- Provide leadership and technical assistance
- Monitor chronic diseases, conditions, and risk factors
- Conduct and translate research and evaluation to enhance prevention
- Engage in health communication
- Develop sound public health policies
- Implement prevention strategies
Who We Work With
- State, tribal, territorial, and local governments
- National, state, and local nongovernmental organizations
Where We Do It
- Communities
- Workplaces
- Schools and academic institutions
- Health care settings
- Child care settings
- Faith organizations
- Homes
How We Do It
- Epidemiology and Surveillance: Provide data and conduct research to guide, prioritize, deliver, and monitor programs and population health
- Environmental Approaches: Make healthy behaviors easier and more convenient for more people
- Health Care System Interventions: Improve delivery and use of quality clinical services to prevent disease, detect diseases early, and manage risk factors
- Community-Clinical Links: Ensure that people with or at high risk of chronic diseases have access to quality community resources to best manage their conditions
Why We Do It
- Healthier environments
- Healthier behaviors
- Greater health equity
- Increased productivity
- Lower health care costs
- Increased life expectancy
- Improved quality of life
What We Achieve
- Less tobacco use
- Less obesity
- Less heart disease and stroke
- Less cancer
- Less diabetes
- Less arthritis
- More physical activity
- Better nutrition
- Better oral health
- Healthier mothers and babies
- Healthier kids
- Page last reviewed: February 17, 2015
- Page last updated: January 14, 2016
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