How does the Steps Program fit into the larger President’s HealthierUS Initiative?
President Bush’s HealthierUS Initiative helps Americans take steps to improve personal health and fitness and encourages all Americans to: Be physically active every day. Eat a nutritious diet. Get preventive screenings. Make healthy choices. Steps to a HealthierUS is an HHS initiative that advances President George W. Bush’s HealthierUS goal of helping Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives and envisions a healthy, strong U.S. population supported by a health care system in which diseases are prevented when possible, controlled when necessary, and treated when appropriate. This initiative is a shift in the traditional approach to the health of our citizens, moving us from a disease care system to a health care system. The centerpiece of the Steps to a HealthierUS Initiative is the Steps Cooperative Agreement Program. The Steps Program funds communities to implement integrated chronic disease prevention and health promotion activities.
