The guide to community preventive services : what works to promote health?
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The guide to community preventive services : what works to promote health?
Oxford University, c2005
- cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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cloth ISBN 9780195151084
Description
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, non-federal 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 behaviours 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 behaviours; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself.
Table of Contents
- PART I: CHANGING RISK BEHAVIOURS AND ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
- 1. Tobacco
- 2. Physical activity
- 3. The social environment
- PART II: REDUCING DISEASE, INJURY, AND IMPAIRMENT
- 4. Cancer
- 5. Diabetes
- 6. Vaccine-preventable diseases
- 7. Oral health
- 8. Motor vehicle occupant injury
- 9. Violence
- PART III: METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
- 10. Methods used for reviewing evidence and linking evidence to recommendations
- 11. Understanding and using the economic evidence
- 12. Continuing research needs
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: pbk ISBN 9780195151091
Description
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 behaviours 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 on health such as education, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into three broad categories: changing risk behaviours; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself.
Table of Contents
- PART I: CHANGING RISK BEHAVIOURS AND ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
- PART II: REDUCING DISEASE, INJURY, AND IMPAIRMENT
- PART III: METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
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