Federal Overview for Public Health Nutrition

1. Federal Overview for Public Health Nutrition

2. Dept. of Homeland Security

3. Some Major Public Health Nutrition Players: • USDA • Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services • Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion • Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) • Department of Health and Human Services • CDC • HRSA • NIH • Administration on Aging • Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

4. USDA Mission • “We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.”

5. Tom Vilsack Mike Johanns Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Operates a Jackhammer Breaking Ground for the People's Garden Project

6. Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Food, Nutrition Service and Consumer Services (FNS) • Works to increase food security and reduce hunger by providing children and low-income people with access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports U.S. agriculture and inspires public confidence in the Nation's domestic nutrition assistance programs. • FNS nutrition assistance programs represent about half of USDA's budget.

7. FNS Programs • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Child Nutrition Programs • Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) • Child and Adult Care Food Program • Food Distribution Programs • Disaster Assistance

8. Child Nutrition Programs • School Meals • National School Lunch Program • School Breakfast Program • Special Milk Program • Team Nutrition • Summer Food Service Program

9. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) • “The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) works to improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.”

10. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) • Partner with HHS for Dietary Guidelines • Healthy Eating Index • Nutrient Content of the Food Supply • My Pyramid • Thrifty Food Plan • Publications: • Nutrition Insights • Family Economics and Nutrition Review

11. Thrifty Food Plan • Last revised 2006 • Establishes menus and market basket costs for a minimal cost healthful diet • Based on 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005 My Pyramid. • Used as the basis for food stamp allocation decisions, and to determine the federal poverty level

12. Federal Poverty Guidelines • Poverty thresholds were originally derived in 1963-1964, using: • U.S. Department of Agriculture food budgets designed for families under economic stress • Data about what portion of their income families spent on food • The current thresholds were originally developed as the cost of a minimum diet times three • If total family income is less than the threshold appropriate for that family, the family is in poverty

13. Food Research Action Committee (FRAC) on the Thrifty Food Plan • “USDA research shows that only 12 percent of low income households who spend at the Thrifty Food Plan level get their recommended dietary allowances for 11 key nutrients.” http://www.frac.org/html/federal_food_programs/programs/fsp_faq.html

14. FRAC on the Thrifty Food Plan, cont. • The Thrifty Food Plan contains a number of assumptions which may not be accurate for many food stamp recipients. For example, purchasing foods for a nutritious diet requires adequate food preparation facilities, extensive time for food preparation, an in-depth knowledge about nutrition and inexpensive transportation to warehouse-type grocery stores or supermarkets.

15. Time Scarcity & Policy • Thrifty Food Plan (1999) takes 16.1 hours a week to prepare. • Mean weekly time for food preparation by employed women in 1999 was 6.4 hours • Time scarcity exacerbated by lack of: • Reliable, convenient transportation • Affordable quality childcare • Job flexibility Reference: Jabs

16. Department of Health and Human Services

17. Skip Navigation Integral to Public Health Nutrition Kathleen Sebelius Mike Leavitt Last revised: December 4, 2003

18. National Institutes of Health Many institutes include nutrition-related research portfolios: • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) • National Institute on Aging (NIA) • National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) • John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC) • National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) • National Cancer Institute

19. Cross-Cutting Nutrition Initiatives at NIH with Public Health Components • Division of Nutrition Research Coordination: • “coordinate Nutritional Sciences-related research and research training across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and among Federal Agencies by providing mechanisms to communicate research, research training, policy, and education initiatives.” • The NIH Obesity Research Task Force: • “the NIH supports a broad spectrum of obesity-related research, including molecular, genetic, behavioral, environmental, clinical, and epidemiologic studies.”

20. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) • Diverse Agency • Direct Services • Supporting health care infrastructure • Community and Migrant Health Services • Health Centers • Expanding • Maternal and Child Health • Block Grants to States • Discretionary Grants

21. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Mission • Collaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats. Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPHDirector, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

22. CDC Centers

23. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion • Vision: All people living healthy lives free from the devastation of chronic diseases. • Mission: To lead efforts that promote health and well-being through prevention and control of chronic diseases

24. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

25. Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity

26. NPAO: Supporting State Programs • Increase physical activity. • Increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables. • Decrease the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages. • Increase breastfeeding initiation, duration and exclusivity. • Reduce the consumption of high energy dense foods. • Decrease television viewing.

27. DHHS: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, • Works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department within the collaborative framework of the HHS agencies. • Collaborated with USDA on Dietary Guidelines

28. Administration on Aging (AoA) • Elderly Nutrition Program Grants to support nutrition services to older people throughout the country. The Elderly Nutrition Program, authorized under Title III, Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging, and Title VI, Grants for Native Americans, under the Older Americans Act, is intended to improve the dietary intakes of participants and to offer participants opportunities to form new friendships and to create informal support networks.

29. Administration on Aging (AoA): Nutrition Services to Older Adults • Congregate & Home Delivered Meals • Nutrition screening • Nutrition education • Counseling • Supportive Health Services