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In this Director's Briefing video, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden talks about how two-thirds of tobacco users want to quit, but fewer than one in ten succeed each year; however, advice from doctors can double or triple the odds that someone will quit for good. Doctors, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurses, and all healthcare providers need to play a critical role in helping tobacco users quit. For more information on CDC's Tips from Former Smokers campaign 2013, visit www.cdc.gov/tips. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://streaming.cdc.gov/vod.php?id=a3fd6e7afbd3dd72d2f27a4011198d4220130514133811240

Cigarette smoking has reached an all-time high at Michael Margiotti's school in Moorestown, New Jersey. With students already suffering from shortness of breath and other effects, he details what else they can expect in the future and says: it's just not worth it. This video was the second runner up winner in the 13-17 age category of the Surgeon General's Video Contest: Tobacco -- I'm Not Buying It. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://streaming.cdc.gov/vod.php?id=20f4cb8a0c4ef2b010897c76d8bbed2220120523100710921

Jessica's son, Aden, has asthma. She describes a visit to the hospital with her son and the realization that his attacks were being caused by secondhand smoke. This video continues Jessica's story within CDC's "Tips From Former Smokers" campaign. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://streaming.cdc.gov/vod.php?id=dc4da002a843bf19258b477c386e492320120516141948417 To learn more about tobacco control and prevention, go to BeTobaccoFree.gov

In the United States, approximately 1 in 5 children have experienced some form of maltreatment, including physical and sexual abuse and the often overlooked danger of neglect. Child maltreatment results in over 1,700 deaths each year; however, the negative health effects reach well beyond these fatalities. In addition to physical injuries, maltreatment causes stress that can disrupt brain development. Thus, children who are maltreated are at higher risk for adult health problems such as alcoholism, smoking, depression, drug abuse, obesity, high-risk sexual behaviors, suicide, and certain chronic diseases. This session of Public Health Grand Rounds focused on the epidemiology and costs of child maltreatment, the need for partnerships, and the potential for policy interventions to combat this urgent public health issue. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds/archives/2011/June2011.htm

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Comprehensive cancer control (CCC) coalitions address tobacco use, the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, through formal plans to guide tobacco control activities and other cancer prevention strategies.

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Education and information about Dracunculiasis, also known as Guinea Worm Disease, signs and symptoms.

Education and information about Dracunculiasis, also known as Guinea Worm Disease, treatment.

Education and information about hookworm including fact sheets and information on prevention and control, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.

Volumen 10 — el 12 de septiembre de 2013.

Workplace health promotion programs to prevent overweight and obesity in office-based employees should be evidence-based and comprehensive and should consider behavioral, social, organizational, and environmental factors.

Improving the health and health literacy of low-income families is a national public health priority in the United States. The federal Head Start program provides a national infrastructure for implementation of health promotion interventions for young children and their families.

If Naegleria fowleri is suspected to be in a municipal water system, the water utility may raise disinfectant levels and flush the system to get rid of Naegleria.