Survey seeks to reduce chronic disease

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Yale wants to learn more about the state of your health.   
    
CARE , a program instituted by the Yale School of Public health, is asking New Haven residents to participate in a survey.
    
Residents of six neighborhoods in the Elm City will be asked about their health status and habits.

It's a move to reverse the growing rates of chronic disease in the city.
    
Organizers say this is the second round of research. A similar survey was conducted in 2009.

"We made a plan to come back in three years to see if what we've done so far has made a difference. Secondly, with the affordable care act, hospitals have a commitment to understand what's going on in their communities," said Jeanette Ickovics, PhD, the Director of CARE.

"It's important that we ask the relevant questions, it's important that we try once we get the information to disseminate it back into the community and then once again go back out and see what impacts we've made," said Mechelle Craddock-Spence, a survey administrator.

Yale says the survey take only about a half an hour to complete and participants will receive a $10 gift card to a local grocery store or a $500 cash prize.
 
The project runs through mid-October.