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Cancer Control Planet: Resources

New Community Guide Cancer Fact Sheets
The Community Guide has posted two new What Works fact sheets that summarize the Community Preventive Services Task Force findings, and systematic reviews on which they are based, for cancer screening and skin cancer prevention. The fact sheets are in the public domain, so may be printed as presentation or exhibit handouts, attached to webinar materials, or linked to from slides and websites.

The Community Guide Announces Web Content Syndication Feature
Sure, you can link to The Community Guide from your website; however a new feature called content syndication lets you do much more. Content syndication allows you to post actual Community Guide content, such as the new cancer fact sheets, directly onto your website -- and, once posted, this information is automatically updated each time The Community Guide makes changes! Content syndication ensures that your website displays the most current and accurate information about Community Preventive Services Task Force's evidence-based findings for policies, programs, and services that promote population health. Go to http://www.thecommunityguide.org/link/index.html to learn how to syndicate web content from The Community Guide.

Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators is offering webinars on Access to Health Services. The first webinar of the 2013 series "Who's Leading the Leading Health Indicators?" and highlighted Children's Defense Fund - Texas was held last month. The event was recorded, and you may listen to that recording at your convenience using the link Access to Health Services. You can also view the January Healthy People bulletin.

To find out about enrollment opportunities for children in your state, please visit insurekidsnow.gov or call (877) KIDSNOW (8775431669). Both resources provide enrollment information to families and caretakers. Additionally, the website contains resources for health professionals.

If your organization or agency is interested in enrolling eligible children in CHIP and Medicaid, CMS is currently soliciting proposals until February 21, 2013 for Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Grants. States, local governments, community-based and non-profit organizations, Indian health care providers and tribal entities are all eligible to apply. For more information, please visit the Professionals section of InsureKidsNow.

Finally, if your organization is doing work around any of the Leading Health Indicators, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invites you to share your story with Healthy People 2020.

Check out these tools that have been added to the tools page under our "Practice and Education" section of the website:

• Body & Soul: A Celebration of Healthy Eating & Living

• Live Healthy in Faith: A Faith Community Guide to Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity

Flu activity continues to increase in the United States with high levels of activity in the South Central and Southeastern regions. Other parts of the nation continue to see increases in flu cases. It's not too late to get vaccinated--the single most important step you can take to protect yourself and others against infection. Urge others i your faith communities to talk to their physician about flu vaccination.