Single Issue Programs

Expertise on specific topics that may be addressed in healthy homes work is available from many CDC programs.  Below is a listing of programs that provide expert advice on their websites.

• Asthma Control
  Provides grants for asthma tracking, intervention, partnership, and public health research activities.

• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention
  Strengthens state and local capacity for carbon monoxide prevention and tracking.

• Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
  Assists state and local childhood lead poisoning prevention programs in providing a scientific basis for policy decisions and ensuring that health issues are addressed in decisions about housing and the environment.

• Disability and Health
  Supports state health departments, universities, and national organizations in developing state disability and health programs, implementing interventions that promote the health of people with disabilities throughout their lifespans, delivering health communication messages, and assessing health risks and the health status of people with disabilities.

• Emergency Preparedness and Response
  Contributes to national, state, and local efforts to prepare for, respond to, and assists in the recovery of a disaster and other emergencies.

• Food Safety
  Plays a key role in identifying prevention strategies and building state and local health department epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health capacity to support foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak response.

• Environmental Health Services
  Offers access to topical and relevant scientific information, consultation, and assistance to environmental health specialists, sanitarians, and environmental health professionals and practitioners.

• Healthy Aging
  Engages in many activities to provide a comprehensive approach to helping older adults live longer, high-quality, productive, and independent lives.

• Injury Prevention
  Funds capacity-building and surveillance activities to prevent and control injuries through the Public Health Injury Surveillance and Prevention (Core State Injury) Program. Conducts research intervention development, translates interventions into community-based programs, and evaluates existing programs for effectiveness so that people can live to their full potential. Priority areas related to the home are fires and falls among older adults. Funds smoke alarm installation and fire safety education programs in high-risk communities.
  

• Nutrition and Physical Activity
  Supports a variety of nutrition-related campaigns and programs and provides consultation and technical assistance to partners, including support to states to develop comprehensive state plans, community interventions, and leadership capacity to address nutrition, physical activity, and obesity.

• Smoking and Health
  Conducts epidemiologic and economic analyses of tobacco use, and disseminates scientific and technical information on tobacco use and health. As the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control, provides funding and technical assistance to support tobacco control programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 7 U.S. territories, and 7 tribal-serving organizations.

• Vector-Borne Disease
  Serves as a national and international reference center for vector-borne viral and bacterial diseases such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus, for which there are proven home-based protection strategies.

• Violence Prevention
  Aims to stop violence before it begins (i.e., primary prevention); offers technical assistance to state and local partners in planning, implementing, and evaluating prevention programs. Priority areas are child maltreatment, youth violence and intimate partner violence.