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Guide to Community Preventive Services
Evidence-based recommendations for programs and policies to promote population health.
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Breast Cancer Resource Directory of North Carolina
Discusses issues and concerns that relate to lesbians, bisexual women and transgender individuals. Reference to "women who partner with women" is meant to encompass all of the above unless otherwise noted.
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Eat Smart Be Active
This site in intended to provide public health professionals, educators, and community leaders and advocates a resource for implementing evidence-based nutrition and physical activity interventions in Texas communities.
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Comprehensive Approaches to Cancer Control: Tool Kit
This kit, available online, is a product of The Council of State Governments (CSG's) Healthy States Initiative--a partnership between CSG and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Healthy States Initiative is designed to help state leaders access information they need to make sound decisions about public health issues.
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CDC's CCC Promotional Toolkit Resources
Clearly and effectively promotes the simple message that collaboration creates positive outcomes. The tools and template materials included are intended to stimulate ideas and support efforts in communicating the benefits of CCC.
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Theory at a Glance: A Guide For Health Promotion Practice (PDF)
Describes influential theories of health-related behaviors, processes of shaping behavior, and the effects of community and environmental factors on behavior.
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Pink Book - Making Health Communication Programs Work
The planning steps in this book can help make any communication program work, regardless of size, topic, geographic span, and intended audience.
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Texas AgriLife Extension (formerly Cooperative Extension)
Texas AgriLife Extension has many cancer control resources available on their website for cancer program planning.
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Texas Obesity Policy Portfolio
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Texas Pediatric Society Childhood Obesity Toolkit
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M. D. Anderson Cancer Survivorship Portal
The objective of this website is to help cancer survivors at all stages of cancer through the physical, emotional and psychological needs of surviving cancer. The website introduces a selection of survivorship services and resources available at M. D. Anderson.
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The Cost of Cancer in Texas (PDF, 1168 KB)
New!
In 2000, The University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs estimated 1998 total cancer costs to be $14.0 billion, with $4.9 billion in direct costs and $9.1 billion in indirect costs due to lost productivity from cancer morbidity and mortality. A new study conducted by a team of researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has just been completed and updates those cost estimates to reflect cancer costs in Texas for 2007.
- Estimates indicate that the total cost of cancer in Texas in 2007 was $21.9 billion.
- The direct cost was $10.0 billion, with $7.7 billion for cancer health care.
- The indirect cost of cancer due to morbidity and mortality was estimated at $11.8 billion.
- The cost of cancer-related programs in Texas from State Agencies, non-profits, and foundations was approximately $78.5 million.
This report also provides estimates of cost of cancer care for eighteen common cancers, as well as estimates of other cost components for the four most common cancers (colorectal, lung, breast and prostate cancer).
The Texas Cancer Registry (TCR), Texas Department of State Health Services initiated and funded this study, to update the cost of cancer in Texas for assistance in public health and health care policy making, evaluate and use its data for the first time in measuring the economic burden of cancer, and provide additional insight for further enhancing TCR data to support this important area of research.
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