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For the millions of Americans with birth defects, disabilities, and blood disorders, a happy, healthy life can be challenging to realize.

Until recently, health care systems in the United States often lacked a unified approach to prevent and manage chronic disease. Recent efforts have been made to close this gap through various calls for increased collaboration between public health and health care systems to better coordinate provision of services and programs. Currently, the extent to which the public health workforce has responded is relatively unknown. The objective of this study is to explore health care system collaboration efforts and activities among a population-based sample of state public health practitioners.

CDC protects people from environmental hazards found in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the world that surrounds us.

Volume 11 — September 04, 2014.

Protecting the public's health involves making critical health decisions that can affect millions of people. So it is vital that decision makers have accurate, relevant health information.

Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases cause 7 in 10 deaths every year in the U.S. CDC works to prevent the risk factors that cause these diseases, such as tobacco use, obesity, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and alcohol abuse.

A core CDC responsibility is to help state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments prepare for emerging health threats.