Guide to Community Preventive Services What Works to Promote Health?

Name: Guide to Community Preventive Services What Works to Promote Health?
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ISBN: 9780195151091

ISBN-10: 0195151097

ISBN-13: 9780195151091

Edition: 2005

Authors: Task Force Task Force on Community Preventive Services, Stephanie Zaza, Peter A. Briss, Kate W. Harris

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The gold standard for evidence-based public health, The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a primary resource to improve health and prevent disease in states, communities, independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, the guide uses comprehensive systemic review methods to evaluate population-oriented health interventions. The recommendations of the Task Force are explicitly linked to the scientific evidence developed during systematic reviews. This volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to combat such risky behaviours as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and violence; to reduce the impact and suffering of specific conditions such as…

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List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction: How to Use The Guide to Community Preventive Services


Foreword


Preface


Contributors & Acknowledgements



Changing Risk Behaviors and Addressing Environmental Challenges



Tobacco: Reducing Initiation, Increasing Cessation, Reducing Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke



Physical Activity: Increasing Physical Acitivity: Informational Approaches, Behavioral and Social Approaches, Environmental and Policy Approaches



The Social Environment: Early Childhood Development Programs, Housing, Culturally Comptetent Health Care



Reducing Disease, Injury, and Impairment



Cancer: Preventing Skin Cancer


Informed Decision Making



Diabetes: Disease Management, Case Management, Diabetes Self-Management Education



Vaccine-preventable Diseases: I. Universally Recommended Vaccines II. Targeted Vaccines Improving Vaccination Coverage among High-risk Adults: Increasing Community Demand, Enhancing Access to Vaccination Services, Provider-and system-based Interventions



Oral Health: Dental Caries, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers, Sports-related Craniofacial Injuries



Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury: Child Safety Seats, Safety Belts, Alchol-Impaired Driving



Violence: Home Visitation, Therapeutic Foster Care, Firearms Laws



Methodological Background



Methods for Reviewing Evidence and Linking Evidence to Recommendations in the Community Guide



Understanding and Using the Economic Evidence Provided in the guide



Continuing Research Needs: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities


Glossary


Appendix


Index