The New Prevention Fund
Wisconsin and the New Prevention Fund:
An Investment in the Future Health of America
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included the creation of a Prevention Fund – to provide communities around the country with more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, provide prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation.
Wisconsin is receiving «Total Amt» from the Prevention Fund this year to reduce disease rates in the state and help ensure today’s children are not the first generation in U.S. history to live shorter, less healthy lives than their parent.
Preventing disease and injury is the most effective, common-sense way to improve health in the United States. Too often, however, we focus on treating disease and injury after they occur instead of preventing them – providing sick care instead of health care.
The ACA and the Prevention Fund give us the opportunity to turn that around – and provides the opportunity for all Americans to be as healthy as they can be.
| Prevention Fund Grants | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Communities Putting Prevention to Work | $7 Million* |
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| Public Health Infrastructure | “” promoting healthier food options | including salads and fresh fruits. This initiative will provide all 113 |
| Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases | 758 residents of La Crosse County greater access to healthy food. Kwik Trip saw their efforts as so successful that they’ve chosen to bring the 500 Club to 30 more stores in neighboring Minnesota and Iowa.
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Wisconsin have increased the use of locally produced foods in schools providing healthy options for almost 5 |
| ARRA evaluation (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) | 000 students. By the end of the school year 5 | 000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables will be served and thousands of dollars will be put back into the local economy through the CPPW Farm to School effort.
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| HIV Laboratory | Wisconsin six miles of new bike lanes have been added to the streets of the city of La Crosse | quadrupling the am |
| HIV Testing | «HIVtestAmt» | «HIVtestdes» |
| HIV Planning | «HIVPlanAmt» | «HIVPlandes» |
| Emerging Infections Program | «EIPAmt» | «EIPdes» |
| Capacity Building Grants | «COMAmt» | «COMdes» |
| Tobacco Prevention | «TOBACCO$» | «TOBACCOdes» |
| Health Care Surveillance | «SURVAmt» | «SURVdes» |
| Workforce | «WORKAmt» | «WORKdes» |
| Training Centers—HRSA | «TRNCNT$» | «TRNCNTdes» |
| Primary care and Behavioral Health Services | «SAMSHA$» | «SAMSHAdes» |
*One-Time Funding from FY2010
Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority. www.healthyamericans.org
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. Helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need–the Foundation expects to make a difference in our lifetime. For more information, visit www.rwjf.org.
