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The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What works to promote health?

The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What works to promote health?


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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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: How to Use The Guide to Community Preventive Services Foreword Preface Contributors & Acknowledgements Part I: Changing Risk Behaviors and Addressing Environmental Challenges Chapter 1: Tobacco: Reducing Initiation, Increasing Cessation, Reducing Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Chapter 2: Physical Activity: Increasing Physical Acitivity: Informational Approaches, Behavioral and Social Approaches, Environmental and Policy Approaches Chapter 3: The Social Environment: Early Childhood Development Programs, Housing, Culturally Comptetent Health Care Part II: Reducing Disease, Injury, and Impairment Chapter 4: Cancer: Preventing Skin Cancer; Informed Decision Making Chapter 5: Diabetes: Disease Management, Case Management, Diabetes Self-Management Education Chapter 6: Vaccine-preventable Diseases: I. Universally Recommended Vaccines II. Targeted Vaccines Improving Vaccination Coverage among High-risk Adults: Increasing Community Demand, Enhancing Access to Vaccination Services, Provider-and system-based Interventions Chapter 7: Oral Health: Dental Caries, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers, Sports-related Craniofacial Injuries Chapter 8: Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury: Child Safety Seats, Safety Belts, Alchol-Impaired Driving Chapter 9: Violence: Home Visitation, Therapeutic Foster Care, Firearms Laws Part III: Methodological Background Chapter 10: Methods for Reviewing Evidence and Linking Evidence to Recommendations in the Community Guide Chapter 11: Understanding and Using the Economic Evidence Provided in the guide Chapter 12: Continuing Research Needs: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities Glossary Appendix Index

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195151091
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 156 mm
  • No of Pages: 544
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 762 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195151097
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: What works to promote health?
  • Width: 234 mm


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