Health-Related Behaviors by Urban-Rural County Classification — United States, 2013 Article Swipe

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YOU? · · 2017 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6605a1 · OA: W2585010757

Chronic disease prevention efforts focus on improving the communities, schools, worksites, and health systems in which persons live, learn, work, and play. Evidence-based strategies to improve health-related behaviors in the population of the United States can be used to reach the Healthy People 2020 objectives for these five self-reported health-related behaviors (sufficient sleep, current nonsmoking, nondrinking or moderate drinking, maintaining normal body weight, and meeting aerobic leisure time physical activity recommendations). These findings suggest an ongoing need to increase public awareness and public education, particularly in rural counties where prevalence of these health-related behaviors is lowest.