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The Guide to Community Preventive Services

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 21; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0749-3797(01)00384-1

1873-2607

Lloyd F. Novick, Alex Kelter,

Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (the Community Guide) promises to be a substantial and necessary tool in collective efforts to improve the public health. This supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) is important, not only for its content, but for the example provided of this approach in practice and policymaking. Painstaking and meticulous methodology yielded extensive reviews of evidence relevant to the reduction of injuries to motor vehicle occupants by increasing child safety seat use, increasing safety belt use, and reducing alcohol-impaired driving. The evidence is then weighed, with a specified protocol, to determine if recommendations can be formulated. 1 Truman B.I. Smith-Akin C.K. Hinman A.R. et al. the Task Force on Community Preventive ServicesDeveloping the Guide to Community Preventive Services an overview and rationale. Am J Prev Med. 2000; 18: 18-26 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (143) Google Scholar , 2 Briss P.A. Zaza S. Pappaioanou M. et al. the Task Force on Community Preventive ServicesDeveloping an evidence-based Guide to Community Preventive Services. Am J Prev Med. 2000; 18: 35-43 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (483) Google Scholar , 3 Zaza S. Carande-Kulis V.G. Sleet D.A. et al. the Task Force on Community Preventive ServicesMethods for conducting systematic reviews of the evidence of effectiveness and economic efficiency of interventions to reduce injuries to motor vehicle occupants. Am J Prev Med. 2001; 21: 23-30 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar Akin to the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, initially issued in 1989 by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and aimed at prevention for the individual patient, this new guide steers an evidence-based course through the broader ocean of population-based prevention. 4 U.S. Preventive Services Task ForceGuide to Clinical Preventive Services. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD1989 Google Scholar , 5 Pappaioanou M. Evans Jr, C. Development of the Guide to Community Preventive Services a U.S. Public Health Service initiative. J Public Health Manage Pract. 1998; 4: 48-53 PubMed Google Scholar Although great progress has been made, as this supplement demonstrates, the future holds significant challenges for this undertaking.