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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