So something near and dear to my heart was the expansion of
NCCDPHP's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) into different modes that could be used in different countries.
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NCCDPHP' s Division of Reproductive Health conducts epidemiologic, applied behavioral, and operations research on the prevention of HIV in women at risk for both HIV and unintended pregnancy.
Years before
NCCDPHP's creation, the responsibilities for a broader scope were being thrust upon the agency.
Kreuter went on to direct both
NCCDPHP's Division of Chronic Disease Control and Community Intervention and the Prevention Research Centers program.
Harris recalled how in its early years,
NCCDPHP had to recruit talent outside CDC.
Additional information about the YRBSS is available from the Division of Adolescent and School Health,
NCCDPHP, CDC, MS K-33, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333.
DHDSP was formed from merging the cardiovascular health program from
NCCDPHP's Division of Adult and Community Health and the WISEWOMAN Program from the center's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity.
Counter-advertising attempts to counter pro-tobacco influences and promote healthy messages through a range of mass media channels, media advocacy techniques, and replacing or reducing tobacco industry sponsorship and promotions (
NCCDPHP, 1999).
These statistics are all too familiar to William Dietz, MD, PhD, director of
NCCDPHP's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO).
Department of Health and Human Services, CDC,
NCCDPHP, OSH, August.
Maas, DDS, MPH, former director of
NCCDPHP's Division of Oral Health (DOH).
And when DRH became one of the founding divisions of
NCCDPHP, the newly formed chronic disease center "learned a lot from our experience," Hogue adds.