The Community Guide

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Granville-Vance District Health Department (NC) adopted a policy identifying the board's commitment to use the Community Guide as a resource to help choose evidence-based programs, practices, and policies "...to better improve health and prevent disease, injury, and disability in our communities. This resource will enable the board to better advise, support advocacy, and justify funding decisions..." Read the entire policy, signed April 5, 2011.     Interested in Developing a similar policy or resolution? Contact NALBOH for a step-by-step approach.

 

About the Community Guide

The Guide to Community Preventive Services, often called the Community Guide (CG), is an ever-expanding free resource providing recommendations on evidence based interventions to improve public health and prevent disease in your community.

 

As an official Liaison organization to the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, NALBOH is pleased to promote programs and policies that have undergone a scientific systematic review process and answer questions critical to boards of health and others interested in community health and well-being such as:

• What interventions have and have not worked?
• In which populations and settings has the intervention worked or not worked?
• What might the intervention cost? What should I expect for my investment?
• Does the intervention lead to any other benefits or harms?
• What interventions need more research before we know if they work or not?

 

Community Guide Topic Areas:

Adolescent Health Alcohol Asthma Birth Defects Cancer Diabetes HIV/AIDS, STIs & Pregnancy Mental Health Motor Vehicle

Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity Social Environment Tobacco Vaccines Violence Worksite

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The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (Task Force) is an independent, nonfederal, volunteer body of public health and prevention experts that meets three times per year. The Task Force serves the following purposes:

• Provide oversight on Community Guide reviews
• Carefully review results and their implications for public health practice and policy
• Make recommendations for interventions shown to promote population health
• Identify areas within the reviewed topics that need more research

 

Learn more about how the Task Force and contributors are involved in the Community Guide.

 

For questions about the Community Guide, contact NALBOH.

 

 

Page updated 10/12/2011.

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