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Summit for a National Action Plan for Bone Health
Based on these findings, and a consensus that the field needed guidance and focus to
direct its efforts, the National Coalition for Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases
sponsored a 2-day summit in June 2008, in Washington, DC. This meeting was designed
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Develop a national action plan to increase awareness among professionals and the
public about prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis and other bone
diseases
Establish priorities for policies and programs for health care providers, health
systems, and population-based approaches
Engage key stakeholders in partnerships to advance action
Initiate long-term implementation and evaluation efforts coordinated by a planning
group of public and private organizations
The summit brought together approximately 150 representatives of major stakeholder
groups, including those from research and academia, professional and voluntary health
organizations, trade organizations, industry, and government, to discuss strategies and
ideas to create a national action plan to advance the Surgeon General’s goals.
Stakeholders met in small, facilitator-led workgroups to propose and discuss key strategies
and activities that would serve as the underpinnings of a National Action Plan for
Bone Health. Stakeholders first met in groups focused on issues specific to the action
steps outlined by the Surgeon General’s report (e.g., increasing awareness, building the
science base, changing the paradigm, integrating health messages). Using strategies
developed during these work sessions, stakeholders met to discuss how their particular
fields or disciplines (e.g., voluntary health organizations, professionals, government)
could implement or advance those strategies. The following action plan is a distillation
of these recommendations and ideas, with a particular focus on the themes that
emerged as the most overarching and most pressing.
10 National Action Plan for Bone Health:
Recommendations from the Summit for a National Action Plan for Bone Health