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Task Force Policy Recommendations

Systematic Reviews on Policy Interventions Conducted by
The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Topic

Policy Setting

Intervention Title

Recommendation

Preventing Excessive
Alcohol Use
Community Enhanced enforcement of laws prohibiting sales to minors
Recommended (Sufficient Evidence)
Regulation of outlet density
Recommended
(Sufficient Evidence)
Privatization of retail sales
Insufficient Evidence
Preventing Skin Cancer
Education
Educational and policy: child care centers
Insufficient Evidence
Educational and policy: primary school settings
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Educational and policy: secondary schools and colleges
Insufficient Evidence
Community
Educational and policy: outdoor recreation settings
Insufficient Evidence
Worksite
Educational and policy: outdoor occupation settings
Insufficient Evidence
Motor Vehicle-related Injury Prevention
Community
Reducing alcohol-impaired driving: sobriety checkpoints
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Reducing alcohol-impaired driving: lower legal blood alcohol concentrations for young and inexperienced drivers
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Reducing alcohol-impaired driving:0.08% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) laws
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Reducing alcohol-impaired driving: minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Use of child safety seats: laws mandating use
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Use of safety belts: laws mandating use
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Use of safety belts: primary (vs. secondary) enforcement laws
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Oral Health
Community
Dental caries (cavities): community water fluoridation
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Education
Dental caries (cavities): school-based or -linked sealant delivery
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Promoting Physical Activity
Community
Community-scale urban design and land use policies
Recommended (Sufficient Evidence)
Street scale urban design/land use policies
Recommended (Sufficient Evidence)
Transportation and policies and practices
Insufficient Evidence
Tobacco
Use
Community
Increasing tobacco use cessation: increasing the unit price of tobacco products
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Reducing tobacco use initiation: increasing the unit price of tobacco products
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: smoking bans and restrictions
Recommended
(Strong Evidence)
Restricting minors’ access to tobacco products: community mobilization with additional interventions
Recommended
(Sufficient Evidence)
Restricting minors’ access to tobacco products: active enforcement of sales laws directed at retailers
Insufficient Evidence
Restricting Minors’ Access to Tobacco Products: Laws directed at minors’ purchase, possession, or use of tobacco products
Insufficient Evidence
Education
School tobacco-free policies
Insufficient Evidence
Worksite
Smoke-free policies to reduce tobacco use among workers
Recommended
(Sufficient Evidence)
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Education
Vaccination requirements for child care, school, and college attendance
Recommended
(Sufficient Evidence)
Violence Prevention
Community
Firearms Laws
  • Bans on specified firearms or ammunition
  • Restrictions on firearm acquisition
  • Waiting periods for firearm acquisition
  • Firearm registration and licensing of firearm owners
  • "Shall issue" concealed weapons carry laws
  • Child access prevention laws
  • Zero tolerance of firearms in schools
  • Combinations of firearms laws
Insufficient Evidence
Transfer of juveniles into adult court system to reduce violence
Recommended Against
(Strong Evidence)
Worksite Health Promotion
Worksite
Smoke-free policies to reduce tobacco use among workers
Recommended
(Sufficient Evidence)
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