Vision/Mission/Strategy
Understand
what we are doing and who we are. Read about the
process we are
taking to achieve this very important goal.
We spent two years in discussion with more than 300 organizations and
individual leaders to get a sense of the needs
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Legislative Priority
We
have been successful in advocating for eight major health promotion
provisions to be included in the Senate and/or House health care reform
bills. If health care reform moves forward, most of these provisions
will remain in the final bill. If health reform stalls, we will
push for a free standing health promotion bill.
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Become an Advocate
Our
advocates have sent more than 11,000 letters to members of Congress to
ask for support of health promotion provisions in health care reform
legislation. There are many benefits to becoming a grassroots advocates.
In addition to helping you enhance your professional skills you will
play an important role in helping us integrate health promotion concepts
into national health policy, and improving the health of the nation..
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Become an Endorser
Health
Promotion Advocates has worked with leaders in the U.S. House of
Representatives and Senate to draft two health promotion bills. Once the
debate on health care reform began, key provisions from these two bills were incorporated into the current legislation now under debate.
Hundreds of organizations endorsed these bill. Given the
integration of these bills into health care reform legislation, we have
suspended efforts to attract additional endorsements. Click on the links
below to see supporters these two bills.
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See the list of endorsers:
Health Promotion FIRST
Healthy Workforce Act
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