Division of Chronic Diseases Prevention and Control

Chronic Diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in Virginia. Our goal is to reduce the incidence and prevent deaths due to major chronic disease in Virginia.

Currently, this is accomplished through:

• Addressing environmental and policy strategies that affect chronic disease status,
• Encouraging healthy lifestyles and addressing risk factors that affect multiple chronic disease status,
• Working with a variety of partners to affect change in systems which influence the prevention or control of chronic diseases, such as collaborating with Managed Care Organizations to develop and promote chronic disease prevention opportunities,
• Developing chronic disease prevention self-management strategies,
• Planning, promoting, and implementing chronic disease prevention training events to develop and enhance partners’ knowledge and skills.
• Producing chronic disease prevention data reports,
• Coordinating resources and messages for media campaigns,
• Managing and supporting community grants and agreements for chronic disease initiatives,
• Collaborating across individual disease prevention project areas to achieve a state comprehensive chronic disease prevention approach.

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