Community Guide News & Announcements

Winter 2012: Task Force Releases New Recommendations and Findings
Topics include tobacco cessation and interventions to promote health equity.

Task Force Member Appointed to President’s Cancer Panel
Congratulations to Community Preventive Services Task Force member Barbara K. Rimer on her appointment as Chairman of the President’s Cancer Panel.

Task Force Releases First Annual Report to Congress
The report describes Task Force background, methods, findings, research gaps, priorities, and how states and communities use its recommendations.

New! Community Guide in Action Success Stories
Read examples of how the Community Guide has been used to improve health in communities across the country.

Task Force finds commercial liability an effective strategy to reduce alcohol-related harms
Holding alcohol retailers liable for injuries or damage done by their intoxicated customers can reduce motor vehicle deaths, homicides, injuries, and other alcohol-related problems.

Summer 2011: Task Force Releases New Recommendations and Findings
Topics include excessive alcohol use and vaccination rates.

Task Force recommends collaborative care to manage depression
This multicomponent intervention uses case managers to link primary care providers, patients, and mental health specialists.

Ignition Interlocks Recommended to Prevent Impaired Driving Re-Arrests
New publication features evidence-based recommendations to reduce alcohol-impaired driving.

Task Force Releases New Recommendations and Findings
Topics include excessive alcohol use, vaccination rates, and health communication campaigns.

Task Force Recommends Maintaining Limits on Days and Hours of Alcohol Sale Laws and policies that limit the days and hours alcohol can be sold are effective public health strategies to prevent harms from drinking too much.

Community Guide to exhibit in Denver at APHA, November 7-11, 2010
Stop by the CDC booth at the upcoming APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, Colorado to pick up information and talk with Community Guide staff.

From Research to Policy: Lessons from a Community Guide Review on Alcohol-Impaired Driving Laws
Laws to reduce the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of drivers save lives. A new case study examines translating this evidence into policy.

Evidence-Based Findings on Worksite Health Promotion Interventions
Evidence-based recommendations to assess health risks and reduce tobacco use are now available in a published Community Guide systematic review.

Prompting Healthcare Providers Can Increase Cancer Screenings
Systems that inform healthcare providers when individual clients are due or overdue for specific tests can increase cancer screenings.

Regulating Alcohol Outlet Density Prevents Excessive Alcohol Use
One way to prevent excessive alcohol use is to regulate the number of places where alcohol may be legally sold in a given area.

Group-Based Interventions for Adolescents
Task Force recommendations now available for group-based interventions to prevent and reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other STIs. Abstinence Education Interventions
Comprehensive Risk Reduction Interventions