For 60 years, the Arthritis Foundation has been a leader in the prevention and control of those 100+ diseases, helping to improve the lives of many individuals across the United States.
By spearheading the prevention, research and efforts improve the quality of life of sufferers, this organization has been able to actively implement that three fold mission on a daily basis.
The Foundation provides much needed grants to researchers to continue their efforts in trying to find a cure as well as better services for treatment and prevention.
They have been able to aid the effort in a large way to provide advances in treatment for most of the 100 varieties of arthritis diseases.
There are many kinds of services that are community based across the nation that help to make living with this disease easier.
Some of these services that the Foundation includes: public forums, water and land-based exercise classes, continuing education and publications for professionals, self-help courses, instructional video tapes, Arthritis Today, and other educational booklets and brochures.
As advocates, volunteers for the Arthritis Foundation are able to represent the 46 million Americans who live with this disease each day in their national and local governments.
This has allowed the establishment of a national institute for arthritis in the National Institutes of Health in order to raise funds for research.
Every year, almost 150,000 people get questions answered by both email and phone.
There are 150 chapters of the this special Foundation across the nation to help individuals with programs based in their communities for the prevention and treatment of the 100+ forms of this disease.
By seeking out cures, treatments, preventions and causes, this voluntary agency is the largest health agency in the nation dedicated to such a broad channel of services.
Raising funds for this effort is an enormous task, and the Arthritis Foundation has stayed true to fighting the battle for awareness.
Driven by volunteers, this organization makes all of its decisions through those volunteers on a committee also.
There are professionals that lend their expertise as paid staff for the foundation who support the efforts of volunteers.
As an addition to the working with Public Policy, Public Health and Research, the AF has partner organizations who help in this fight.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and the AF have developed the NAAP, or National Arthritis Action Plan, to help diminish the challenges that the public health faces because of this disease.
By spearheading the prevention, research and efforts improve the quality of life of sufferers, this organization has been able to actively implement that three fold mission on a daily basis.
The Foundation provides much needed grants to researchers to continue their efforts in trying to find a cure as well as better services for treatment and prevention.
They have been able to aid the effort in a large way to provide advances in treatment for most of the 100 varieties of arthritis diseases.
There are many kinds of services that are community based across the nation that help to make living with this disease easier.
Some of these services that the Foundation includes: public forums, water and land-based exercise classes, continuing education and publications for professionals, self-help courses, instructional video tapes, Arthritis Today, and other educational booklets and brochures.
As advocates, volunteers for the Arthritis Foundation are able to represent the 46 million Americans who live with this disease each day in their national and local governments.
This has allowed the establishment of a national institute for arthritis in the National Institutes of Health in order to raise funds for research.
Every year, almost 150,000 people get questions answered by both email and phone.
There are 150 chapters of the this special Foundation across the nation to help individuals with programs based in their communities for the prevention and treatment of the 100+ forms of this disease.
By seeking out cures, treatments, preventions and causes, this voluntary agency is the largest health agency in the nation dedicated to such a broad channel of services.
Raising funds for this effort is an enormous task, and the Arthritis Foundation has stayed true to fighting the battle for awareness.
Driven by volunteers, this organization makes all of its decisions through those volunteers on a committee also.
There are professionals that lend their expertise as paid staff for the foundation who support the efforts of volunteers.
As an addition to the working with Public Policy, Public Health and Research, the AF has partner organizations who help in this fight.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and the AF have developed the NAAP, or National Arthritis Action Plan, to help diminish the challenges that the public health faces because of this disease.
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