Healthy Lucas County’s chronic disease prevention and management project is among 39 awardees nationwide receiving funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Partnerships to Improve Community Health program. More than half of American adults have at least one chronic disease, and the grant program supports efforts to improve community health.
Since obesity and many chronic diseases are preventable – including heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes – Healthy Lucas County's grant project focuses on three areas:
- Increasing access to healthy fruits and vegetables in neighborhood corner stores.
- Protecting people who live in, work at and visit multi-unit housing complexes from secondhand smoke.
- Connecting residents with or at risk for chronic diseases – especially diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease – to needed medical and social services.
