Prevention

Goal
To promote health lifestyles and behavior in order to prevent cancer

Nutrition and Physcial Activity Subcommittee

Goal
To halt/reverse the upward obesity and overweight trends by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and other healthy foods, reducing caloric intake, and increasing physical activity among California adults, teens, and children

Strategy
Implement mass communications to create environemental and policy change, improve leadership and coordination, and monitor outcomes through surveillance/evaluation.

Tobacco Subcommittee

Goal
Secure parity in workplace protection from secondhand smoke exposure among workers employed within Indian gaming-leisure worksites in California comparable to the protection provided workers employed at worksites under legal jurisdiction of the State of California.

Strategy
Create a PowerPoint presentation for local health departments to use to educate local community members, casino management, and casino workers, regarding the issue of secondhand smoke. Create a secondhand smoke toolkit for use by tobacco control and public health advocates to promote smoke-free Indian gaming.

Skin Cancer Subcommittee

Goal
Reduce skin cancer incidence among California residents by (1) increasing public awareness regarding the dangers associated with over-exposure to ultraviolet radiation found in sunlight and tanning beds; and (2) expanding individual and organization-wide practice of sun-protection behaviors and related meaures.

Strategy
Promote adoption of a sun-protective lifestyle through media outreach conference presentations, maintenance of a web-based resource center, provision of technical assistance to educational and business enterprises, and production and dissemination of sun-safety educational materials to entities that serve at-risk populations.