First, Healthcare associated infections. More than 1 million Americans are exposed to health care infections while receiving medical treatment. The CDC is working towards the elimination of healthcare related infections.
Second, HIV. Let's Stop HIV Together was launched to help overcome stigma and complacency. It is a national communication campaign that gave voice to the estimated 1.1million Americans living with HIV.
Third, CDC Vital Signs: Public Health Calls to Action. Vital signs reports data and calls to action on important public health issues. The CDC believes that by focusing on individual problems and using multimedia to promote them they can have success in getting the message out to Americans.
Fourth, Public Health Grand Rounds: Exploring PH Issues. Grand Rounds attempts to close the gap between science and communication. The main focus of these are HPV, teen pregnancy, and immunization.
Fifth, Million Hearts: Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes. Nearly 800,000 people die each year due to CVD, accounting for 1/3 deaths and $300 billion in direct medical costs. CDC is working to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
Sixth, TIPS: Helping Smokers Quit. Tips from former smokers is a national ad campaign that will be released.
Seventh, Newborn Screening: Saving Babies Lives. Nearly 6,000 babies are born in the US with severe disorders, most of which are treatable. The CDC will be working with the Association of Public Health Laboratories to promote the benefits of newborn screening.
Eighth, Food Safety. The CDC data collection will better help to track where food borne outbreaks start, travel and and why the outbreak occurred.
Ninth, Heads Up to Parents. This program helps parents, coaches, and athletes to identify concussions caused by sport injuries. Currently, 800,00 copies have been distributed with more on the way.
Tenth, Children's Mental Health. Approximately 1/5 children in the US will be diagnosed with a mental, emotional or behavioral disorder this year (blogs.cdc.gov). The economic cost is $247 billion/year.
Eleventh, Clinical Preventable Services for Children and Adolescents. Screening for things such as developmental delays, vision screenings, tobaccos use counseling and more will be achieved through this initiative.
Twelfth, Preventable Parasitic Diseases. 1 million people are killed, disabled, or disfigured by parasitic diseases worldwide and millions in the US are infected (blogs.cdc.gov). The CDC is launching high quality screening that will help to screen and diagnose 15,000+ cases.
Thirteenth, Global Efforts to Prevent Violence Against Children. More than 1 billion children (half of the children in the world) are victims of violence each year. The CDC will expand and work with global partnerships to measure the amount of violence towards children that exists as well as develop ideas to combat this horrible issue.
Sources:
(1) http://blogs.cdc.gov/cdcworksforyou24-7/2013/01/cdc-looks-ahead-13-public-health-issues-in-2013/
(2) http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/LetsStopHIVTogether2012-IndividualStories.html
(3) http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds/index.htm
(4) http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/