Vision/Mission/Strategy
Vision
Our vision is to promote healthy lifestyles among all Americans and thereby
reduce medical costs and utilization, improve quality of life, and enhance
productivity.
Mission
Our mission is to make health promotion an integral part of all elements of
society including clinical settings, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods,
families, and local, state and federal policy.
Strategy
Our strategy is to engage the health promotion community in developing,
supporting and passing legislation that contributes to our mission.
Process
We spent two years in discussions with more than 300 organizations and
individual health promotion leaders to get a sense of the needs of the health
promotion community and to determine which of these needs could be addressed
through federal policy. We also meet with more than 350 congressional offices to
educate them on the concept of health promotion, and get a sense of their
interest in working to integrate health promotion concepts into society. This
experience led us to introduce resolutions in 2001 in the
Senate and
House of
Representatives called
Building Health Promotion into the National Agenda. Our discussions also helped
us compose a number
of pieces of legislation which resulted in us taking the lead in composing two additional pieces
of legislation.
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