City of Cincinnati

BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Very few children get the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity each day, and even fewer adults get the recommended 30 minutes. The built environment, which includes the physical components of where we live and work (e.g., homes, buildings, streets, open spaces and infrastructure), can influence the amount of physical activity that is done by residents in neighborhoods. The Creating Healthy Communities program evaluates neighborhoods, and identifies assets and barriers that can influence health outcomes, such as presence of sidewalks and bicycle or walking paths. Cross-Department Initiatives: Health Impact Assessments Environmental Public Health Tracking Denisha Porter, MPH, RS, HHS Project Director Ellen Berninger, BS, CHES Public Health Educator Mary Fairbanks, Clerk P 513 357 7540 Camille Jones, MD, MPH Assistant Health Commissioner Noble Maseru, Ph.D, MPH Health Commissioner

HEALTH PROMOTION AND WORKSITE WELLNESS

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Creating Healthy Communities

The Creating Healthy Communities Program is the official Health Promotion and Worksite Wellness initiative for the City of Cincinnati. The purpose of the program is to encourage environmental, policy, and systems changes in the community, worksite, school, and healthcare settings to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, promote tobacco cessation, and provide chronic disease prevention education. By working through partnerships and collaborations, the program builds healthy lifestyle practices into policies and environments in an effort to improve the systems that influence the health of our citizenry.

Tobacco Free Living

Tobacco-free living means avoiding use of all types of tobacco products - such as cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes and hookahs and living free from secondhand smoke exposure. Tobacco use is the leading cause of premature and preventable death in the United States. Living tobacco-free reduces the risk of developing cancer, heart disease, asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease, gum disease, and other diseases that contribute to premature death. The Creating Healthy Communities program helps churches, homes, schools and worksites to create tobacco free environments. Tobacco Free initiatives: Homes Schools Churches Worksites Healthy Monday Campaigns

Chronic Disease Prevention

Heart disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke and diabetes, are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. Chronic diseases account for 70% of all deaths in the U.S., or 1.7 million each year. These diseases cause major limitations in activities of daily living for almost 1 out of 10 Americans or about 25 million people. The Creating Healthy Communities program collaborates and plans events with local stakeholders to address prevention and control of chronic disease. Initiatives: Faith-based Health & Wellness Committee Support Community Roundtables Healthy Monday Campaigns Power of Womens Health Conference

Healthy Eating, Active Living (H.E.A.L.)

H.E.A.L. empowers community members to make healthy decisions in the fight against obesity. The Creating Healthy Communities program uses H.E.A.L principles to support communities in their efforts to enhance physical environments, increase access to healthful foods and provide residents with more opportunities to be physically active. Initiatives: Urban Farming Healthy Monday Campaigns Action for Healthy Kids Lets Move Campaign Safe Routes to School Spaces and Places Physical Activity Guide

Tristate Workplace Wellness Collaborative (TWWC)

The Tri-State Workplace Wellness Collaborative fosters workplace cultures that promote healthy lifestyles by increasing networking and sharing of ideas and experiences among members of our regional network, and providing information about best in class workplace wellness programming.