The Guide to Community Preventive Services
- LAST REVIEWED: 04 October 2016
- LAST MODIFIED: 29 August 2012
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756797-0024
- LAST REVIEWED: 04 October 2016
- LAST MODIFIED: 29 August 2012
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756797-0024
Introduction
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (or “Community Guide”) is a family of products (book, journal articles, Internet products) that synthesize current best evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of, the applicability of, and barriers to the use of community interventions, programs, and policies intended to improve health. The Community Guide also explicitly links evidence to practice recommendations. The Community Guide evaluates interventions delivered to groups of people in health-care systems; community settings such as schools and worksites; and interventions such as laws, policies, and environmental changes that address whole geographic communities. The Community Guide is sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recommendations are developed by the independent, nonfederal Community Preventive Services Task Force (previously called the Task Force on Community Preventive Services). This bibliography includes selected print and electronic resources that are part of the core Community Guide family of products, as well as resources that provide additional history, background, and commentary on those products and resources that situate the Community Guide in the context of other related efforts in systematic reviews, evidence-based practice, programs that work, and research translation.
Primary Sources
The Community Guide has produced publications summarizing scientific evidence about community interventions and making recommendations for their use across a broad range of public health topics. All Community Guide reviews also identify areas in which current evidence is insufficient to support firm conclusions and identify research gaps. Some of that work is summarized in this bibliography (see Reviews of Evidence). The most comprehensive and up-to-date source of Community Guide products is the online homepage for the guide, The Guide to Community Preventive Services. The book version of the Community Guide (Zaza, et al. 2005) includes all reviews completed between 1996 and 2004 in a single volume. The Task Force’s First Annual Report to Congress (Community Preventive Services Task Force 2011) provides a useful summary of all the recommendations as well as immediate plans for new work and selected success stories.
Community Preventive Services Task Force. 2011. First annual report to Congress, and to agencies related to the work of the Task Force. Atlanta: Community Preventive Services Task Force.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize an independent Community Preventive Services Task Force convened by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also requires the Task Force to produce yearly reports to Congress, which are useful for identifying successes with implementing Guide-recommended interventions and identifying current priorities for the Task Force and the Guide.
The Guide to Community Preventive Services: The Community Guide.
From this site users can access many of the resources discussed in this online bibliography, as well as a broad range of other materials, such as commentaries on the core products, fact sheets, slide sets, and promotional materials.
Zaza, Stephanie, Peter A. Briss, and Kate W. Harris, eds. 2005. The guide to community preventive services: What works to promote health? New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
The preface, foreword, and introduction and the “Methods,” and “Research Needs” chapters are useful sources on the need for this sort of resource for evidence-based public health, the history and development of the family of products, methods, use of the results locally, and remaining gaps in the evidence base.
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Article
- Abortion
- Access to Health Care
- Action Research
- Active Aging
- Active Living
- Addiction
- Adolescent Health, Socioeconomic Inequalities in
- Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior in the United States
- Advocacy, Public Health
- Agricultural Safety and Public Health
- Air Quality: Health Effects
- Air Quality: Indoor Health Effects
- Alcohol Availability and Violence
- Alternative Research Designs
- Ambient Air Quality Standards and Guidelines
- American Perspectives on Chronic Disease and Control
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- Arts in Health
- Asbestos
- Asthma in Children
- Asthma, Work-Related
- Attachment as a Health Determinant
- Behavior
- Behavior Change Theory in Health Education and Promotion
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
- Bicycling and Cycling Safety
- Bioethics
- Birth and Death Registration
- Birth Cohort Studies
- Board of Health
- Breastfeeding
- Built Environment and Health, The
- Business and Corporate Practices
- Cancer Communication Strategies in North America
- Cancer Prevention
- Cancer Screening
- Capacity Building
- Capacity Building for NCDs in LMICs
- Capacity-Building for Applied Public Health in LMIC: A US ...
- Cardiovascular Health and Disease
- Child Labor
- Child Maltreatment
- Children, Air Pollution and
- Children, Injury Risk-Taking Behaviors in
- Children, Obesity in
- Citizen Advisory Boards
- Climate Change and Human Health
- Climate Change: Institutional Response
- Clinical Preventive Medicine
- Community Air Pollution
- Community Development
- Community Gardens
- Community Health Assessment
- Community Health Interventions
- Community Partnerships and Coalitions
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Complexity and Systems Theory
- Critical Health Literacy
- Cultural Capital and Health
- Cultural Safety
- Culture and Public Health
- Definition of Health
- Dental Public Health
- Design and Health
- Dietary Guidelines
- Directions in Global Public Health Graduate Education
- Driving and Public Health
- Ecological Approaches
- Enabling Factors
- Environmental Health, Pediatric
- Environmental Laws
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Ethics of Public Health
- Evidence-Based Pediatric Dentistry
- Evidence-Based Public Health Practice
- Family Planning Services and Birth Control
- Food Safety
- Food Security and Food Banks
- Food Systems
- Frail Elderly
- Functional Literacy
- Genomics, Public Health
- Geographic Information Systems
- Geography and Health
- Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Global Health Promotion
- Global Health Security
- Guide to Community Preventive Services, The
- Health Administration
- Health Communication
- Health Disparities
- Health Education
- Health Impact Assessment
- Health in All Policies
- Health in All Policies in European Countries
- Health Literacy
- Health Literacy and Noncommunicable Diseases
- Health Measurement Scales
- Health Planning
- Health Promoting Hospitals
- Health Promotion
- Health Promotion Foundations
- Health Promotion Workforce Capacity
- Health Promotion Workforce Capacity
- Health Systems of Low and Middle-Income Countries, The
- Healthy People Initiative
- Healthy Public Policy
- Hepatitis C
- High Risk Prevention Strategies
- Homelessness
- Human Rights, Health and
- Human Sexuality and Sexual Health: A Western Perspective
- IANPHI and National Public Health Institutes
- Immigrant Populations
- Immunization and Pneumococcal Infection
- Immunization in Pregnancy
- Indigenous Peoples, Public Health and
- Indigenous Populations of North America, Australasia, and ...
- Indoor Air Quality Guidelines
- Inequities
- Infant Mortality
- Internet Applications in Promoting Health Behavior
- Intersectoral Action
- Intersectoral Strategies in Low - Middle Income Countries ...
- Justice, Social
- Knowledge Translation and Exchange
- Knowledge Utilization and Exchange
- Law of Public Health in the United States
- Media Advocacy
- Mental Health
- Mental Health Promotion
- Migrant Health
- Migrant Worker Health
- Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention
- Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
- Nanotechnology
- National Association of Local Boards of Health
- National Public Health Institutions
- Needs Assessment
- Needs Assessments in International Disasters and Emergenci...
- Obesity Prevention
- Occupational Cancers
- Occupational Exposure to Benzene
- Occupational Exposure to Erionite
- Occupational Safety and Health
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Oral Health Equity for Minority Populations in the United ...
- Ottawa Charter
- Parenting and Work
- Parenting Skills and Capacity
- Participatory Action Research
- Patient Decision Making
- Pesticide Exposure and Pesticide Health Effects
- Pesticides
- Physical Activity and Exercise
- Physical Activity Promotion
- Pneumoconiosis
- Polio Eradication in Pakistan
- Population Aging
- Population Determinants of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages
- Population Health Objectives and Targets
- Precautionary Principle
- Prenatal Health
- Preparedness
- Program Evaluation in American Health Education
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Public Health, History of
- Public Health Surveillance
- Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health Research and ...
- Public-Private Partnerships to Prevent and Manage Obesity ...
- Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
- Racism as a Structural Determinant of Health
- Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies
- Randomized Controlled Trials
- Real World Evaluation Strategies
- Reducing Obesity-Related Health Disparities in Hispanic an...
- Research Integrity in Public Health
- Resilient Health Systems
- Rural Health in the United States
- Safety, Patient
- School Health Programs in the Pacific Region
- Sex Education in HIV/AIDS Prevention
- Silicosis
- Skin Cancer Prevention
- Smoking Cessation
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Epidemiology
- Social Marketing
- Statistics in Public Health
- STI Networks, Patterns, and Control Strategies
- Stillbirths
- Suicide
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Systems in the United States, Public Health
- Systems Modeling and Big Data for Non-Communicable Disease...
- Systems Theory in Public Health
- Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative M...
- Translation of Science to Practice and Policy
- Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Tuberculosis among Adults and the Determinants of Health
- UK Public Health Systems
- Unintentional Injury Prevention
- Urban Health
- Vaccination, Mandatory
- Vaccine Hesitancy
- Vermiculite
- Violence Prevention
- War
- Water Quality
- Water Quality and Water-Related Disease
- Weight Management in US Occupational Settings
- Welfare States, Public Health and Health Inequalities
- Workforce
- Worksite Health Promotion
- World Health Organization (WHO)