Mayors Wellness Campaign
Mayors Wellness Campaign:
Providing New Jersey communities with the tools for change
It costs more than $2.3 billion a year to pay for medical problems related to obesity. In New Jersey, 55 percent of the population is obese or overweight.
To address this critical issue and encourage healthy living and wellness, NJHCQI created the Mayors Wellness Campaign to equip the state's mayors with the tools they need to develop and implement active-living initiatives in their communities. The campaign's ultimate goal is to improve health and reduce skyrocketing health care costs.
The program provides mayors with a "toolbox" of workable, user-friendly, and inexpensive programs that they can put to work in their communities.
NJHCQI has partnered with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities (www.njslom.org) to administer this program. Currently, over 300 of New Jersey's 566 municipalities are participating in the campaign and are working aggressively to combat obesity and increase the overall health of their communities.
Major funding for the Mayors Wellness Campaign is provided by The Walmart Foundation.