2024 Chronic Disease Brief Report - Alaska

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Tobacco:

Need help quitting tobacco? Call Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line.
1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669).

Physical Activity and Nutrition:

Learn how we support families and schools to motivate kids to Play Every Day for 60 minutes, and to serve water or milk instead of sugary drinks.

Diabetes:

Find out if you’re at risk for diabetes. Learn how to lower your risk or manage diabetes if you have it.

Heart Disease/Stroke:

Learn how we are working with community health centers to help them improve care for Alaskans with high blood pressure.

Injuries:

Learn about how Alaskans are working together to prevent injuries and violence in our state.

​​Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention (OSMAP)

Learn how we are working to prevent harms related to substance use.

Webpage updated October 2024

Alaska Section of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Health starts where we live, work, learn, and play – long before we need medical care.

A health care provider works with individual Alaskans. The Section of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion works with communities, health systems, worksites, and schools to reduce and manage the most prevalent, costly, and preventable health problems across Alaska. These include injuries; substance misuse and addiction; and chronic diseases, like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and dementia.

We also collect data so that we understand the health risks of Alaskans, and can create, evaluate, and improve programs directed at enhancing health.

Learn more about what our section does.

Looking for data on health risks of youth and adults?

• The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) collects data on health challenges facing Alaska adults.
• The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) collects data on health challenges facing Alaska high school students.
  
  

Looking for information on programs that prevent and address chronic conditions, injuries, and substance misuse?

• Looking for free programs for better health? Visit Fresh Start.
  
• The Physical Activity and Nutrition Program focuses on reducing obesity-related disease and death from diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancers and other health problems linked to a lack of physical activity and poor nutrition.
• Learn how we support families and schools to motivate kids to Play Every Day for 60 minutes, and to serve water or milk instead of sugary drinks.

 

• The Tobacco Prevention and Control Program coordinates and promotes activities that help all Alaskans to live healthy and tobacco-free lives.
• Need help quitting tobacco? Call Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line. 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669).
• The School Health Program works with partners to address all aspects of student health.
• The Comprehensive Cancer Control Program works with partners to prevent cancer and reduce its impact on Alaskans’ lives.
• The Dementia Education and Prevention Program increases knowledge about what Alaskans can do to reduce chances of developing dementia.
• The Diabetes Prevention and Control Program works with partners to prevent diabetes and reduce its impact on Alaskans’ lives.
• The Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program works with partners to prevent heart disease and stroke and reduce their impact on Alaskans’ lives.
• The Injury Prevention Unit works with partners to prevent injuries and violence among Alaskans.
• The Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention works with partners to prevent harms related to substance use in Alaska.

Contact us:

Email: hss.cdphp@alaska.gov
Phone: 907-269-2020