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The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health?

What Works to Promote Health? Book coverThe Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health?, includes intervention reviews and recommendations completed between 1996 and 2004. You can find more current reviews and findings at All Community Guide Topics.

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Opening Adobe PDF File [PDF - 218KB]
  Includes: Conventions Used in This Book, Introduction, Figures, and Acknowledgements
   
Part I: Changing Risk Behaviors and Addressing Environmental Challenges
  Chapter 1: Tobacco Adobe PDF File [PDF - 363KB]
  Chapter 2: Physical Activity Adobe PDF File [PDF - 302KB]
  Chapter 3: The Social Environment Adobe PDF File [PDF - 386KB]
   
Part II: Reducing Disease, Injury, and Impairment
  Chapter 4: Cancer Adobe PDF File [PDF - 402KB]
  Chapter 5: Diabetes Adobe PDF File [PDF - 331KB]
  Chapter 6: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Adobe PDF File [PDF - 402KB]
  Chapter 7: Oral Health Adobe PDF File [PDF - 360KB]
  Chapter 8: Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury Adobe PDF File [PDF - 355KB]
  Chapter 9: Violence Adobe PDF File [PDF - 340KB]
   
Part III: Methodological Background
  Chapter 10: Methods Used for Reviewing Evidence and Linking Evidence to Recommendations Adobe PDF File [PDF - 214KB]
  Chapter 11: Understanding and Using the Economic Evidence Adobe PDF File [PDF - 171KB]
  Chapter 12: Continuing Research Needs Adobe PDF File [PDF - 137KB]
   
Glossary Adobe PDF File [PDF - 139KB]
Appendix Adobe PDF File [PDF - 156KB]
Index Adobe PDF File [PDF - 107KB]
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