Tools For Partners

CDC recognizes several evidence-based physical activity and self-management education programs that are proven to improve the quality of life for adults with arthritis. Some of these community-based programs are also available in Spanish.

Learn about the programs that CDC recognizes or considers promising.

CDC has developed communication materials and evidence-based public awareness campaigns to promote physical activity and self-management education as useful ways to manage arthritis.

• Physical Activity. The Arthritis Pain Reliever. campaign
• Buenos días, artritis campaign
• Self-Management Education: Learn More. Feel Better. campaign
• Arthritis Communications Center
• Key Public Health Messages
• Fact Sheet: How CDC Improves Quality of Life for People With Arthritis

CDC has developed a variety of tools to support the dissemination and implementation of proven interventions.

Marketing Tools

• Spread the Word: Marketing Self-Management Education Through Ambassador Outreach
• The 1.2.3 Approach to Provider Outreach

Background Information

• Compendium of Arthritis-Appropriate Interventions
• ASMP/CDSMP Meta-Analysis Executive Summary
• Self-Management Education Issue Briefs

Resources

• Physical Activity Program Referral Materials and Fact Sheets for Physical Therapists and their Patients with Arthritisexternal icon

Health care providers play an important role in arthritis management.

• Information for Health Care Providers

• Exercise is Medicineexternal icon

• The 1.2.3 Approach to Provider Outreach

CDC and partners have developed information to describe or guide public health activities addressing arthritis.

• Arthritis Policy Resources
• A National Public Health Agenda for Osteoarthritis: 2020 Update pdf icon[PDF – 3MB]
• A National Public Health Agenda for Osteoarthritis: 2010 pdf icon[PDF – 330MB]
  • 10 Key Public Health Recommendations for Ostearthritis pdf icon[PDF – 95KB]
• Healthy Peopleexternal icon

The following information is useful in planning or managing CDC cooperative agreements.

• CDC Funding
• Budget, Grants and Funding—Public Health Professionals Gateway
• GrantSolutionsexternal icon
• Grants.govexternal icon
• Department of Health and Human Services Payment Management System, Program Support Centerexternal icon

CDC-Funded Arthritis Program Partners and Past Notice of Funding Announcements (NOFO)

• CDC-RFA-DP18-1803 State Public Health Approaches to Addressing Arthritisexternal icon
  • NOFO FAQs
  • Attachment 1: List of Evidence-Based Interventions
  • Attachment 2: Resources and Tools
• CDC-RFA-DP16-1606 Advancing Arthritis Public Health Approaches through National Organizationsexternal icon

• CDC-RFA-DP12-1210 State Public Health Approaches to Improving Arthritis word icon[doc – 358KB]

• CDC-Funded Arthritis Research Projects

CDC has trainings and fellowship programs for a variety of public health topics.

• Public Health 101 Training Series
• CDC Fellowships and Training Opportunities
• CDC Learning Connection
• Public Health Education and Training Development
• Training and Continuing Education Online

CDC has developed several resources that can be used to plan or evaluate public health programs.

• Framework for Program Evaluation
• State Plan Index: A Tool for Assessing the Quality of State Public Health Plans
  • Using the State Plan Index Tool
• Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO)

CDC Surveillance Resources for State Program Evaluation

• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
• Chronic Disease Indicators Database

CDC routinely monitors and reports on arthritis data trends and topics.

• Arthritis Data and Statistics
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
• Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI) Interactive Database
• National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Questionnaires and Datasets

• CDC-Funded National Organizations
• CDC-Funded State Programs
• CDC-Funded Rural Health Activities
• Reach of CDC-Funded Arthritis Programs