The Guide To Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health? (Task Force on Community Preventive Services) - Softcover

Task Force On Community Preventive Services, Task Force On Community Preventive Services

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195151097 ISBN 13: 9780195151091

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

community outreach."--Oncology Nursing Forum

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195151097
• ISBN 13: 9780195151091
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Zaza Stephanie