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GoalReduce illness, disability, and death related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.OverviewScientific knowledge about the health effects of tobacco use has increased greatly since the first Surgeon General’s report on tobacco was released in 1964

Research suggests changing the retail environment can help prevent chronic disease. Stores that make the healthy choice the easy choice—by reducing tobacco marketing, stocking nutritious items, and not selling alcohol near schools, for instance—can actually improve community health.

In this toolkit, you will find tactics to help children in your community live safer, more physically activelives and, more specifically, to help you advocate for state and local public policy requiring that all roadconstruction and reconstruction create complete streets that are safe and convenient for all users andall modes of transportation. Voices for Healthy Kids is excited to offer this toolkit—as well as severalothers—to support communities striving to live, learn, and play in healthy environments.

This document provides a brief overview of racial and ethnic health disparities and unveils a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (“HHS Disparities Action Plan”).

The HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities outlines goals and actions. The Department of Health and Human Services will take to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.