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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
  Includes: Conventions Used in This Book, Introduction, Figures, and Acknowledgements
   
Part I: Changing Risk Behaviors and Addressing Environmental Challenges
  Chapter 1: Tobacco
  Chapter 2: Physical Activity
  Chapter 3: The Social Environment
   
Part II: Reducing Disease, Injury, and Impairment
  Chapter 4: Cancer
  Chapter 5: Diabetes
  Chapter 6: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  Chapter 7: Oral Health
  Chapter 8: Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury
  Chapter 9: Violence
   
Part III: Methodological Background
  Chapter 10: Methods Used for Reviewing Evidence and Linking Evidence to Recommendations
  Chapter 11: Understanding and Using the Economic Evidence
  Chapter 12: Continuing Research Needs
   
Glossary
Appendix
Index
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