A new public service announcement from the Healthy Futures program shows how Alaska Native role models across Alaska stay active, thanks to support from ANTHC, Skiku Nordic ski program and music group Pamyua. The video highlights the importance of daily physical activity to reduce childhood obesity and encourages participation the Healthy Futures Challenge that offers rewards and incentives for students at participating schools. The video and a list of participating schools are available at healthyfuturesak.org. Healthy Futures empowers Alaska’s youth ...

ANTHC is proud to support “Day 001: Voices of Recovery,” a media campaign celebrating Alaskans who share their stories of alcohol addiction and the moment when they decided to move on from their addiction. The Day 001 video series shares true stories of a diverse group of Alaskans from professionals to students to artists. The videos help present alcohol addiction recovery as a healthy part of life and show other Alaskans struggling with alcohol abuse that recovery is achievable. With ...

Did you know that 78 percent of Alaska high school students do not drink alcohol? Last week, ANTHC Substance Abuse Prevention program staff shared this fact and others for National Drug Facts Week, an opportunity to link students with scientists and other experts to counteract the myths about drugs and alcohol that teens get from the internet, TV, movies, music, or from friends. A highlight of the program was a presentation from youth involved in the “Be [You]” media campaign ...

As you have seen over this series of articles, fighting the tobacco epidemic in Alaska requires many people and organizations working together. ANTHC’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (ANTHC TPC) collaborates with a wide variety of partners to address the issue of tobacco in local communities, to share tobacco-related resources and to provide training opportunities for advocates and health care professionals. Our partners include our Tribal health organizations for trainings and technical assistance to improve systems to “Ask, Advise and ...

Tobacco use is a leading health concern for Alaska; in fact, about 1 out of 3 Alaska Native people use tobacco. To protect the health of our people, ANTHC has made it a top priority to provide tobacco-quit resources and reduce the use of tobacco within the Alaska Tribal Health System. In 2010, the ANTHC Board of Directors supported the development of an ongoing initiative to increase tobacco cessation services for patients at ANMC by ensuring that every patient is ...

Sixty-six percent of smokers see a physician every year. In Alaska, 67 percent of smokers and 62 percent of smokeless tobacco users want to quit, according to Alaska Tobacco Facts. Over the last several weeks, we have shared information on tobacco use among Alaska Native people, the power of strong anti-tobacco policy and the emerging threat from new tobacco products. All of these are proven interventions to turn the tide of the tobacco epidemic among Alaska Native people, but perhaps ...