For more Information, visit:

www.cincinnati-oh.gov
www.weknowhealthmatters.org
Cincihealthdept
CincinnatiHealthDepartment
Camille Jones, MD, MPH
Assistant Health Commissioner
Noble Maseru, PhD, MPH
Health Commissioner
3101 Burnet Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
Children should have 60 minutes or more
of physical activity daily, and adults should
have at least 30 minutes daily. The built
environment, or the physical components
of where we live and work (e.g. homes,
buildings, streets and open spaces), can
infuence the amount of our physical
activity.
Creating Healthy Communities (CHC)
evaluates neighborhoods, and identifes
assets and barriers that can infuence
health outcomes, such as presence of
sidewalks and bicycle or walking paths.
Cross -Department Initiatives:
Health Impact Assessments
Environmental Public Health Tracking
HEALTH PROMOTION AND
WORKSITE WELLNESS
Denisha Porter, MPH, RS, HHS
Project Director,
Health Promotion & Worksite Wellness
QUESTIONS?
Call 513 357 7540
CREATING HEALTHY
COMMUNITIES
The Creating Healthy Communities
(CHC) Program is the offcial Health
Promotion and Worksite Wellness
initiative for the City of Cincinnati. CHC
encourages environmental, policy and
systems changes in various environments
to improve nutrition, increase physical
activity, promote tobacco cessation,
and provide chronic disease prevention
education.
HEALTHY EATING,
ACTIVE LIVING
H.E.A.L. empowers community members
to make healthy decisions in the fght
against obesity. CHC uses H.E.A.L
principles to support communities in their
efforts to enhance physical environments,
increase access to healthful foods and
provide residents with more opportunities
to be physically active.
CHC INITIATIVES:
Urban Farming
Healthy Monday Campaigns
Action for Healthy Kids
Lets Move Campaign
TOBACCO-FREE LIVING
Tobacco-free living means avoiding use
of all types of tobacco products - such
as cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco,
pipes and hookahs - and living free from
secondhand smoke exposure. Living
tobacco-free reduces the risk of developing
cancer, heart disease, asthma and chronic
obstructive lung disease, gum disease and
other diseases that contribute to premature
death.
CHC INITIATIVES:
Healthy Monday Campaigns
Churches
Schools
Worksites
Homes
CHRONIC DISEASE
PREVENTION
Chronic diseases account for 70% of all
deaths in the U.S., or 1.7 million each year.
These diseases cause major limitations in
activities of daily living for almost 1 out of
10 Americans. CHC collaborates and plans
events with local stakeholders to address
prevention and control of chronic disease.
CHC INITIATIVES:
Faith-based Health & Wellness
Committee Support
Community Roundtables
Healthy Monday Campaigns
Power of Womens Health Conference
TRISTATE WORKPLACE
WELLNESS
COLLABORATIVE
The Tri-State Workplace Wellness
Collaborative (TWWC) fosters workplace
cultures that promote healthy lifestyles
by increasing networking and sharing of
ideas and experiences among members
of our regional network, and providing
information about best in class workplace
wellness programming.