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TIGER funds Complete Streets: Stimulus funds flow to create opportunities for physical activity
The lion's share of ARRA funds are just starting to flow into the economy. Last week the Department of Transportation announced $1.5 billion dollars in funding from the Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. Applications totalled $60 billion, reflecting tight budgets at the state & local levels.
Complete Streets measures to increase physical activity were evident in many of the grant applications.
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ContinueAdded by Marisel Brown on February 24, 2010 at 9:37pm — No Comments
HEALTH AFFAIRS: Obesity driving increase in medical spending
Health Affairs (Web Exclusives) confirms that obesity is the leading cost driver in medical care across all payer sources. Complications associated with obesity, primarily chronic disease, accounted for the increase in Medicare spending from 1987-2006.
Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer-and service-specific estimates
July 2009…
ContinueAdded by Marisel Brown on February 24, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment
IT'S HERE: The Food Environment Atlas from the USDA
Activities to document our food environment are gaining momentum. The USDA released a web-based tool that provides several food & physical activity indicators for all counties in the nation.
The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors:
Food Choices—Indicators of the community's access to and acquisition of healthy, affordable food, such as: access and proximity to a grocery store; number of foodstores and…
Added by Marisel Brown on February 24, 2010 at 5:37am — No Comments
AJPH Article: The Ubiquity of Energy-dense Snack Foods: A National Multicity Study
The authors confirm that we live in an obesogenic environment nearly 24-7.
Abstract & Introduction
Objectives. We assessed the availability and accessibility of energy-dense snacks in retail stores whose primary merchandise was not food and whether these varied by store type, region, or socioeconomic…
ContinueAdded by Marisel Brown on February 19, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco "gets" connection between health and community development economics
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) publishes the Community Development Investment Review. FRBSF's Community Affairs Department created the Center for Community Development to research & raise the visibility of the latest efforts in providing capital to low-income and/or economically fragile communities. The summer 2009 issue (Volume 5, Issue 3) was dedicated to the impact of place/community on health.
The spectrum of disciplines &…
ContinueAdded by Marisel Brown on February 13, 2010 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment
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