The guide to community preventive services what works to promote health?

• Corporate Author: Task Force on Community Preventive Services (U.S.)
• Other Authors: Zaza, Stephanie (Editor), Harris, Kate W. (Editor), Briss, Peter A. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University 2005
• Subjects: Community Health Services > United States; Preventive Health Services > United States; Health Promotion > United States
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• Physical Description: xxxvi, 506 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780195151091; 0195151089; 0195151097

The gold standard for evidence-based public health, The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a primary resource to improve health and prevent disease in states, communities, independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, The Guide uses comprehensive systemic review methods to evaluate population-oriented health interventions. The recommendations of the Task Force are explicitly linked to the scientific evidence developed during systematic reviews. This volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to combat such risky behaviors as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and violence; to reduce the impact and suffering of specific conditions such as cancer, diabetes, vaccine-preventable diseases, and motor vehicle injuries; and to address social determinants oh health such as education, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into three broad categories: changing risk behaviors; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself