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Registration is now open for the next Healthy People 2030 webinar: Healthy People 2030: Empowering Diabetes Prevention, Treatment, and Management. This webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 25 from 11:00 am ET to 12:00 pm ET. Continuing Education Credits are available for those who register and attend the live webinar.

Healthy Northeast Ohio is a web-based repository for population health data that serves 9 counties in Ohio. With frequently updated local and state data — plus a suite of tools to help users understand that data — the platform aims to give public health departments, hospitals, and other partners in the region insights into their community’s health status to guide decision-making. Healthy Northeast Ohio includes Healthy People 2030 targets to allow users to see, at a glance, how local data compare to national targets.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 identified calcium, potassium, dietary fiber, and vitamin D as nutrients of public health concern because many of us do not get adequate amounts of these nutrients in our diets. Iron is also a critical nutrient for pregnant women and some infants. To help consumers and nutrition professionals identify which foods contain these much-needed nutrients, USDA and HHS have developed new tools that explain where to find calcium, dietary fiber, potassium, vitamin D, and iron in a variety of foods and beverages that meet a range of dietary preferences and cultural traditions.

This guest post is part of Healthy People in Action, a blog series highlighting how key partners use the Healthy People framework in their work, form cross-sector collaborations, and address social determinants of health to help improve health for all. In this post, the author discusses volunteering as a means to improve social connection for older adults and the resulting positive health outcomes for both those being served and the volunteer.