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Mattapan Community Health Center was privileged to lead a collaborative effort through the American Public Health Association to plan and develop a vitamin D policy. The policy calls for education and research into vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency. The full policy is available below or by visiting www.apha.org/advocacy/policy. Please not that there are eight action statements.
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Action Statements
American Public Health Association -- Approved Resolution on October 28, 2008 "Call for Education and Research into Vitamin D Deficiency/Insufficiency"
American Public Health Association::
Urges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to advocate and provide funding for a coordinated and integrated approach to educating health care providers/practitioners, and public health professionals and others, such as patient advocates and community health workers about the science and benefits of adequate levels of vitamin D.
Urges the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other Federal agencies to promote the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans as the basis for increased public awareness using current nutrition guidance for healthy eating, notably for populations at greater risk for vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency.
Recommends to the Department of Human Health Services and USDA that the APHA have organizational representation on the panel of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans for strategies to improve vitamin D intake.
Requests that it become a participating organization in planning Healthy People 2020 to promote national awareness of the magnitude of the problem of poor vitamin D status; and the associated increased risk for chronic disease development by introducing specific objectives in planning Healthy People 2020 goals.
Recommends Congress to appropriate funds to conduct research in diverse populations to determine population specific vitamin D intakes associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases.
Recommends Congress appropriate funds to refine methodology for assessing vitamin D levels in the population.
Recommends to the Food and Drug Administration to add vitamin D to the list of required nutrients appearing on the Nutrition Facts Panel that is required on all foods in the U.S. market place.
Urges the Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture to begin a campaign NOW aimed directly at the general public and based on scientific data currently available, without waiting for the professional publications referred to above.