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As healthcare services providers, you play
a unique role in addressing major public health
problems and communicating sound, evidence-based
strategies to promote and improve health. You
are ideally situated to promote partnerships
between practitioners and community groups to
address such issues as physical activity, nutrition,
vaccination coverage, and tobacco use. Population-based
interventions with proven effectiveness can
help individuals, families, schools, and communities—and
you are an essential link in the chain that
provides that help.
The Community Guide, the community
health complement to the Guide
to Clinical Preventive Services, provides
a resource that tells which population-oriented
prevention interventions work and at what cost
across a broad range of topics. Recommendations,
made by a panel of independent, nonfederal experts
in public health, are based on careful systematic
reviews of all available literature on a topic
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The recommendations you’ll find on this
website provide evidence to help make good choices
among community health options. You can combine
this information on what has worked elsewhere
with knowledge of your local community and healthcare
system, including the types of interventions
likely to be feasible and acceptable in diverse
settings; the critical governmental, community,
business, and voluntary organization partners
needed to develop and implement effective strategies;
and the needs of the specific groups you serve.
The following examples of Community Guide
recommendations are just a few of the interventions
you can implement to help improve health and
prevent disease in your practice or community.
Explore the rest of this website for additional
and more detailed information.
Tobacco use prevention and reduction:
Reducing
patient costs for treatments to quit smoking
Telephone quit lines
Provider
reminder systems
Provider
reminder systems with provider education
Increasing vaccination coverage through:
Standing
orders for delivery of vaccines to adults
Provider
reminder and recalls
Assessment
and feedback for providers
Reducing cancer morbidity and mortality
through:
Client reminders to increase screening for
breast, cervical,
and colorectal
cancer
Partnering
with schools to make dental sealants available
to children
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