Do you have a resource or success story (“gem”) to share for a future issue? Submissions for each week’s Thursday publication are due by noon every Tuesday to Health.MakingitBetter@state.mn.us or community specialists for:
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The CDC's new Built Environment Assessment Tool measures the core
features of the built environment that affect health, especially walking,
biking, and other types of physical activity. The direct systematic observation
data collection tool, which is an adaptation of the Microscale Audit for Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) tool,
assesses five core areas: (1) built environment infrastructure (e.g., road
type, curb cuts/ramps, intersections/crosswalks, traffic control,
transportation); (2) walkability (e.g. sidewalk/path features, walking safety,
aesthetics & amenities); (3) bikeability (e.g., bicycle lane/path
features); (4) recreational sites and structures, and (5) the food environment
(e.g., access to grocery stores, convenience stores, farmers markets, etc.).
Action for Healthy Kids has released their fall/winter
webinar schedule and LOTS of topics directly correlate with SHIP 4 activities
that may be of interest to school partners and wellness groups. Check out
their line up and register today! Active Classrooms, Healthy
Celebrations, Smarter Lunchrooms, etc.
NEW SRTS factsheets to help overcome obstacles and
get rural dwellers the health benefits of walking and bicycling. The first introduces SRTS and highlights why it’s good
for rural communities. The second explores the challenges of SRTS in rural
areas, and highlights successful rural programs and the innovative approaches
used to overcome hurdles. The third takes on rural active transportation
generally, setting out an approach for how rural communities can support
walking and bicycling more broadly.
The Journal of Physical Activity and Health special supplement themed "Walking and Walkability:
Approaches to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Health" highlighting
approaches to increase population levels of physical activity through walking
and improved walkability. The articles focus on 1) improving the physical
environment to support walking, and 2) the role of personal motivation for
walking which may include walking the dog or walking to nearby destinations,
such as public transit, stores, or schools.
Bicycle Alliance of
Minnesota has 3 training sessions in September of the Walk! Bike! Fun!
Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Curriculum planned for Greater Minnesota and
encourages schools and community partners to invite teachers and other
educators. More information and registration for the training can be
found here.
Where do transportation and
health meet? How to engage partners for engineering projects? How to ensure
equity in your outreach? The possibilities are endless.
The Safe Routes to School National Conference Program Committee
is accepting proposals for
conference presentations from September 8, starting at 7 am, until October 31
at 4 pm.
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The FDA is announced last week that through ongoing surveillance
efforts, they are issuing warning
letters to three cigarette manufacturers, who describe their cigarettes on
product labeling as “additive free” and/or “natural.” The warning letters are
for violations of Section 911 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(FD&C Act).
Youth
are exposed to many types of pro-tobacco influences, including smoking in
movies, which has been shown to cause initiation. This paper examined exposure
to tobacco use in TV/movies and static tobacco advertising in
newspaper/magazines, retail stores, and the Internet to study associations
between different channels of pro-tobacco media and susceptibility to smoking
cigarettes, cigarette experimentation, and current tobacco use among U.S.
middle and high school students. Findings underscore the importance of reducing
youth tobacco exposure through smoking images in TV/movies and through static
advertising. See the infographic here. You can find the full report here.
CounterTobacco.org
has launched its fourth annual photo contest! The tobacco industry spends $1
million every hour to market their deadly products. The Surgeon General has
concluded that exposure to this retail marketing encourages smoking and
undermines quit attempts. And it's happening in YOUR community. You can help
#MakeTobaccoHistory by exposing the tobacco industry's marketing tactics at the
point of sale. Grab your camera and start snapping pics today! Winners receive
bragging rights and a swanky CounterTobacco.org prize pack. Click here to enter.
Contest
Categories:
- Greatest Youth Appeal
- Electronic Smoking Products (e.g. e-cigarettes, vape pens, e-hookah,
cartridges, e-liquid, etc.)
- Stores Near Schools
- Best Map or Infographic
- Funniest/Most Ironic
- Novel Products
- Cheap Tobacco (e.g. little cigars/cigarillos, smokeless, cigarettes, etc.)
- Flavored Tobacco Products
We invite you to briefly provide feedback on our nicotine toolkit, released 6/10/2015, in conjunction with our Health Advisory on the nicotine health risks for youth.
To take this short survey, go to https://survey.vovici.com/se/56206EE31A93F2A2
The nicotine toolkit was made available to help you educate stakeholders in your community about the harms of nicotine. It includes talking points, question and answers, data highlights, infographics and social media tools. You can access the toolkit on Basecamp here.
Feedback will be used to improve future toolkits.
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Learning objectives:
- Applying community
engagement milestones to healthcare and workplace settings, using a health
equity lens
- Understand new SHIP 4
activities for the workplace, health care and tobacco cessation strategies
- Applying new techniques
to old strategies (how layering, dementia and fit into the SHIP framework)
October 6 | 9am-4pm | Detroit Lakes | Minnesota State – Detroit Lakes, Room C103, 900 Highway 34 East, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
October 13 | 9am-4pm | Duluth | Lake Superior College, http://www.lsc.edu/about-lsc/maps/, Main Campus, Room S1981, 2101 Trinity Road, Duluth, MN 55811
October 15 | 9am-4pm | Marshall | Southwest Health & Human Services, Third
Floor, Rooms 4 & 5, 607 West Main Street, Marshall, MN 56258
October 20 | 9am-4pm | Roseville | Minnesota Department of Education, Room CC-14,
1500 Highway 36 West, Roseville, MN 55113
October 27 | 9am-4pm | Rochester | Southeast Service Cooperative, Wood Lake Meeting
Center, 210 Wood Lake Drive SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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