Grassroots Committee
Background and Responsibilities
Background:
The vision of Health Promotion Advocates (HPA) is to promote healthy lifestyles
among all Americans and thereby reduce medical costs and utilization, improve
quality of life, and enhance productivity. Our mission is to make health
promotion an integral part of all elements of society, including clinical
settings, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, families and local, state and
federal policy. Our strategy is to engage the health promotion community in
developing, supporting and passing legislation that contributes to our mission.
HPA spent two years gaining a sense of the needs of the health promotion
community and determining which of these needs could best be addressed through
federal policy. HPA also met with Congressional staffs to educate them on the
principles of health promotion, and evaluate their interest in working to
integrate health promotion into society. These experiences lead us to
introducing resolutions in the
Senate and
House of Representatives under the
banner of “Building Health Promotion into the National Agenda.”
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