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Iowa Health Focus - Sept/Oct 2011
Description: Your source for public health news in Iowa
Sept/Oct 2011 
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- Branstad launches Healthiest State Initiative
- More than 60,000 reports comprise disease summary
- What are Iowa’s critical health needs?
- Local boards of health recognized
- Webinar: Walking Works for Schools, Sept. 14
- Multi-agency response plans tested in Black Hawk County
- Latest state data show obesity rate rising
- Capacity tracking system to go live Oct. 1
- Iowa above national average for nursing babies
- Submit your abstract by Oct. 7
- Iowa Health Fact Book 2011 profiles health and behavior of Iowans
- Safeguard Iowa Partnership hosts Prepare Fair, Oct. 8