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What Works Fact Sheet: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches to prevent cardiovascular disease. It is designed to help clinical and public health professionals find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to reduce patients’ risk for cardiovascular disease. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Diabetes Prevention and Control
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches to prevent and manage diabetes. It is designed to help clinical and public health professionals find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services, and other interventions—to prevent and manage diabetes. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Health Communication and Health Information Technology
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches that use health communication and social marketing strategies or health information technology to improve health. It is designed to help public health professionals find proven strategies—including programs, services, and other interventions—to develop successful health communication and health information technology interventions. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Health Equity
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches that aim to improve health equity. It is designed to help public health professionals, educators, and administrators find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to improve health equity. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Improving Women's Health
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about interventions that address heart disease, cancer, and mental health—health issues that place a particular burden on women. It is designed to help public health professionals find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to address women’s health. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
Listen to an audio clip (7:20) of Dr. Jennifer Bishop-Crawford as she talks with CDC’s Dr. John Anderton about development of the women’s health fact sheet and how she’s come to rely on The Community Guide as a dependable resource.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Increasing Appropriate Vaccination
This two-page summary features an easy-to-read table that shows Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommendations and findings for evaluated intervention approaches. It may be viewed online or printed as a handout, making it useful for communications with decision makers and partners.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Increasing Physical Activity
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches to increase physical activity. It is designed to help public health professionals find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to increase physical activity. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Motor Vehicle-Related Injury Prevention
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches to improve motor vehicle safety. It is designed to help public health professionals find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to increase child safety seat use, increase safety belt use, and reduce alcohol-impaired driving. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Obesity Prevention and Control
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches to prevent overweight and obesity. It is designed to help public health professionals, educators, and employers find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to prevent overweight and obesity. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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What Works Fact Sheet: Preventing Excessive Alcohol Consumption
This brochure summarizes information in The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) about intervention approaches to prevent excessive alcohol consumption. It is designed to help public health professionals find proven intervention approaches—including programs, services and other interventions—to prevent excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. It can help decision makers in both public and private sectors make choices about what intervention approaches are best for their communities.
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