A tool to help older adults understand the nutrition facts label.
Information and resources for measuring long-term average daily intake, or "usual intake, including an NCI-developed method for estimating usual dietary intakes of foods and nutrients using 24-hour recalls. This method can be used to:
- Estimate the distribution of usual intake for a population or subpopulation
- Assess the effects of individual covariates on consumption
- Predict individual intake for use in a model to assess the relationship between diet and disease or other variable using the statistical technique of regression calibration.
Resources, organizations, and articles that American Indian and Alaska Native communities can use to strengthen violence prevention efforts.
Interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources.
A clearinghouse providing educators with evidence-based resources, including intervention reports, practice guides, and study reviews.
Case study that examines the successful implementation of a worksite physical activity program in the Kentucky Department of Education and Department of Health.
Case study that explores evidence-based strategies to bring worksite physical activity to more people in Mississippi agencies.
Case study that examines early evidence for successful practices in an area in Utah to help staff members manage health at work.
A list of 196 common activities in which youth participate and the estimated energy cost associated with each activity. It can be used by a wide variety of people—including researchers, health care professionals, teachers and coaches, and fitness professionals—and in a variety of ways—including research, public health policy making, education, and interventions to encourage physical activity in youth. The website includes fact sheets for classroom and physical education teachers as well as public health practitioners.
Monitors six categories of health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults. YRBSS is a system of surveys. It includes 1) a national school-based survey conducted by CDC and state, territorial, tribal, and 2) local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments.