%0 Journal Article %T National Public Health Week: Small Steps Toward Big Change %A Senator Tom Udall %J Archive of "American Journal of Public Health". %D 2016 %R 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303195 %X Public health professionals and their commitment to evidence-based prevention have saved countless lives and improved our quality of life. Through efforts such as childhood vaccination programs, the campaigns for safer motor vehicles and against tobacco, the identification of occupational hazards, healthy pregnancy education, and the abatement of lead-based paint in housing, public health professionals have made our families and communities safer and healthier %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4985099/