Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Prevention & Chronic Care
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health & Safety Topics
- Health.gov
- Healthy People 2020
- National Prevention Strategy
- Partnership for Prevention
- Prevention Institute
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Trust for America’s Health: Resource Library
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Prevention
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Ideas for Action
- Professional Research Consultants Community Health Connection Quarterly Newsletter
- American Hospital Association’s Community Connections
- Blueprints for Violence Prevention
- Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Communities Putting Prevention to Work
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Guide to Community Preventive Services
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Strategies Snapshot: Community Health in Action
- ChildTRENDS — Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS)
- Community Toolbox, Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas
- County Health Rankings and Roadmaps' "What Works for Health"
- Find Youth Info
- Health Evidence (free to register)
- National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices: Health Division
- National Organization of County & City Health Officials: Model Practice Database
- New York Academy of Medicine’s Compendium of Proven Community-Based Interventions
- NREPP: National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Model Program Guide
- Promising Practices Network
- SAMHSA’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practices
- Social Programs That Work
- World Health Organization: Interventions on Diet and Physical Activity: What Works
Opportunities
Prioritization of the health needs identified in this assessment was determined based on a prioritization exercised conducted among community stakeholders (representing a cross-section of community-based agencies and organizations) in conjunction with the administration of the Online Key Informant Survey. Insofar as these health issues were identified through the data, or ranked among key informants’ chief concerns, their ranking of these issues informed the following priorities:Mental Health
Substance Abuse
HIV/AIDS
Infant & Child Health
Family Planning
Heart Disease & Stroke
Nutrition, Physical Activity & Obesity
Tobacco
Oral Health
Cancer
Kidney Disease
Diabetes
Injury & Violence
Access to Healthcare Services
Respiratory Disease