HP Strategies & Tactics

· Tobacco

· Alcohol

· Seat belts

· Workplace safety

· Cancer

· Prescription drug use

· Drug abuse

· HIV

· Vaccine preventable diseases

· Nutrition

· Diabetes

Behavioral tactics

· Education

· Attitudes

· Beliefs

· Values

· Actions

· Calorie counting, control of sugar intake

· Could be a specific campaign or program aimed at increasing or decreasing behaviors (increasing knowledge of more healthful eating practices)

· Could be a treatment (smoking cessation)

· Think programs specific to behavior change

Environmental

· Increasing the number of safe walking paths so children are more likely to walk or bike to school

· Increasing access to areas/locations to exercise

· Drunk driving checkpoints

· Providing community resources to reduce or limit specific behaviors

· Increasing safe workplace practices

· Prohibit smoking in the workplace

Policy – Federal, state, or local

· Laws

· Ordinances

· Tobacco tax

· School lunch policy/Nutritional standards

· Seat belt laws

· Laws allotting funding for specific health programs

· Affordable Care Act

· Advocacy campaigns leading to policy enactment/development and/or law(s)