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Overview
What
We Do
The Guide to Community Preventive Services
(Community Guide) serves as a filter for scientific
literature on specific health problems that
can be large, inconsistent, uneven in quality,
and even inaccessible. The Community Guide summarizes
what is known about the effectiveness, economic
efficiency, and feasibility of interventions
to promote community health and prevent disease.
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services
makes recommendations for the use of various
interventions based on the evidence gathered
in the rigorous and systematic scientific reviews
of published studies conducted by the review
teams of the Community Guide. The findings from
the reviews are published in peer-reviewed journals
and also made available on this Internet website.
Who
Develops the Community Guide?
The Community Guide is being developed by the
non-federal Task
Force on Community Preventive Services (the
Task Force), whose members are appointed by
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC). Although convened by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
the Task Force is an independent decision-making
body. Task Force members have expertise in:
- Behavioral and social sciences
- Communications sciences
- Decision and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Dentistry
- Epidemiology
- Information systems
- Managed care
- Management and policy
- Primary care medicine
- Quantitative policy analysis
- State and local health departments
The Task Force receives guidance from
consultants with experience in creating
evidence-based guidelines,
liaisons from federal agencies, and representatives
of professional
organizations involved in public health.
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What
has been Published?
Findings from the Task Force are published
when systematic reviews are completed. Summaries
are published in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report (MMWR) Recommendations and Reports
series. Broader reviews of the evidence on which
the findings are based are published in supplements
to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine
(AJPM).
To date, the Task Force has published over
100 findings across sixteen topic areas.
Sample
Citation for the Guide to Preventive Community
Services
" Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury. Guide
to Community Preventive Services Website. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. www.thecommunityguide.org/mvoi/.
Last updated:11/14/2005. Accessed on: 01/21/2006."
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