Broad Goals

While CDC's programs are working on a variety of priorities within these Winnable Battle areas, including ensuring high quality data, supporting population health approaches, and working toward measurable progress, the following provides a snapshot of select Winnable Battle goals. For each of the goals, we have listed resources to help you with your own program planning at the state, tribal, local and territorial levels.

Food Safety Goals:

Improve knowledge of incidence, trends, burden, and causes of foodborne illness

Learn More:

• Vital Signs – Making Food Safer to Eat
• Estimates of Foodborne Illness in the U.S.
• Trends in Foodborne Illness
• Foodborne Illness Q&A
• Food Safety at CDC
• Learning Connection: Food Safety

Improve state and federal epidemiologic, laboratory and environmental health capacity to quickly detect and respond to foodborne outbreaks

Learn More:

• PulseNet
• Foodborne Illness Surveillance Systems
• Foodborne Outbreak Online Database
• Environmental Health Specialists Network
• CDC and the Food Safety Modernization Act

Decrease the rate of foodborne illness and the number of foodborne outbreaks each year

Learn More:

• FoodNet
• OutbreakNet
• Multistate Foodborne Outbreaks
• How Are Foodborne Outbreaks Investigated
• Foodborne Illness A-Z
• Prevention and Education

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Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevention Goals:

Improve adherence to infection prevention guidelines

Learn More:

• Infection Prevention Guidelines

Improve national surveillance

Learn More:

• Monitoring Healthcare-Associated Infections
• National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) website

Improve capacity at state and local health departments

Learn More:

• State-based HAI Prevention Activities
• Healthcare-Associated Infections Recovery Act

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HIV Prevention Goals:

Implement and support the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Learn More:

• National HIV/AIDS Strategy Website
• Community Ideas Report - National HIV/AIDS Strategy [PDF - 13.2MB]
• Federal Implementation Plan - National HIV/AIDS Strategy [PDF - 723KB]

Reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States

Learn More:

• HIV Incidence
• HIV Surveillance Terms and Definitions
• How Can HIV Be Prevented?

Ensure linkage to continuity of care

Learn More:

• HIV Treatment
• Prevention IS Care

Implement comprehensive Prevention with Positives

Learn More:

• Prevent New Infections by Working with People Diagnosed with HIV and Their Partners

Implement prevention with high-risk negatives

Learn More:

• HIV Testing Website
• How Can HIV Be Prevented?
• HIV among African Americans
• HIV among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
• HIV among Hispanics/Latinos
• HIV among Women
• Testing Resources for Healthcare Providers
• HIV and Young Men Who Have Sex with Men [PDF - 299KB]
• HIV Testing Among Youth [PDF - 640KB]
• HIV and African American Youth [PDF - 975KB]
• SHPPS HIV Prevention [PDF - 228KB]

Improve data monitoring and dissemination

Learn More:

• HIV Infection Reporting
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Resources
• State and Local HIV Surveillance Reports [PDF - 76KB]
• Act Against AIDS Communication Campaign
• Sexual Behaviors - High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Reduce HIV-related disparities

Learn More:

• Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB
• Social Determinants of Health

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Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Goals:

Every state, territory and tribal area in the United States has evidence-based public health programs and policies in place to prevent motor vehicle-related injury and death

Learn More:

• Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Policies
• Motorcycle Safety Guide for Policy Makers
• State-Based Costs of Deaths from Crashes
• Community Guide Site on Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention
• State Distracted Driving Laws
• State Motorcycle Helmet Laws
• State Seat Belt Laws

Every person in all seating positions is buckled up on every trip

Learn More:

• Motor Vehicle Safety: Seat Belts
• Community Guide Site on Use of Safety Belts
• State Seat Belt Laws

Every driver has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) below the illegal limit on every trip

Learn More:

• CDC Impaired Driving Website
• Community Guide Site on Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving
• Impaired Driving Campaign Planning Resources - NHTSA
• Mass Media Campaign Effectiveness in Preventing Alcohol-Impaired Driving

All teen drivers are covered by the strongest graduated driver license (GDL) policies/practices and parental monitoring is ensured

Learn More:

• Parents Are The Key Campaign: What Parents Can Do
• Policy Impact: Teen Driver Safety
• State Graduated Driver Licensing Laws
• State Rankings of Graduated Driver Licensing Laws

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Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Goals:

Provide technical assistance and evaluate the effect of nutrition standards for foods marketed to children

Learn More:

• Healthy Youth Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Website
• Preliminary Proposed Nutrition Principles for Marketing Foods to Children [PDF - 507KB]
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2010) - USDA
• School Health Services Resources
• Legal and Policy Resources on Nutrition Advertising Targeting Children
• Nutrition Standards for Food in Schools
• Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories

Reduce trans fat in the food supply

Learn More:

• Trans Fat Information for Everyone
• Legal and Policy Resources on Artificial Trans Fat

Reduce sodium levels in processed and restaurant foods

Learn More:

• CDC Salt Website
• CDC Grand Rounds: Sodium Reduction
• Sodium Reduction in Communities Program

Research and evaluate the effect of front-of-package labeling

Learn More:

• Front-of-Package Labeling Initiative – FDA.gov
• Nutrition Labels on Pre-packaged Foods: A Systematic Review

Increase the number of people who meet the physical activity guidelines

Learn More:

• Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans – Health.gov
• Physical Activity Guidelines for American Children and Adolescents
• Toolkit - Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans – Health.gov
• Toolkit - Youth Physical Activity Guidelines
• Strategies to Improve the Quality of Physical Education [PDF - 598KB]
• The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Goals:

Decrease pregnancies among adolescent females

Learn More:

• CDC Teen Pregnancy Website
• CDC Vital Signs: Preventing Teen Pregnancy in the U.S.
• Births: Preliminary Data for 2009 [PDF - 307KB]
• President’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
• U.S. Teenage Birth Rate Resumes Decline (02/2011) – NCHS Data Brief

Delay initiation of sexual activity among teens

Learn More:

• Healthy Youth Sexual Risk Behaviors

Increase use of contraception, particularly long-acting, reversible methods, among sexually active teens

Learn More:

• Contraception: Unintended Pregnancy Prevention
• Youth Online – High School Youth Risk Behavior Study
• Sexual Behaviors - United States, High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2009

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Tobacco Use Prevention Goals:

Track tobacco use and prevention policies

Learn More:

• CDC Smoking and Tobacco Use Website
• Global Tobacco Surveillance System Data
• State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
• Tobacco Control State Highlights
• Tobacco Legislation by State

Use media to highlight the dangers of tobacco

Learn More:

• Smoking and Tobacco Media Campaign Resource Center
• Office on Smoking and Health Media Kit

Reduce exposure to secondhand smoke

Learn More:

• Secondhand Smoke and Adults Surveillance Data
• Secondhand Smoke and Youth Surveillance Data
• Secondhand Smoke Materials
• Secondhand Smoke Protection Research

Provide effective cessation services

Learn More:

• CDC Quit Smoking Website
• Cessation Program Materials
• SmokeFree.gov
• Smoking Cessation Fact Sheets
• Telephone Quitline Guide

Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

Learn More:

• FDA Rules and Guidance Update
• Tobacco Control Act: Resources and FDA Regulations

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How Is Your State Doing?

For data on how your state is doing in each of the Winnable Battle areas and beyond, please see the Data and Statistics page.

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