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The Community Guide Launches Reinvented Website

The Community Guide website has been reinvented!  According to an email announcing the update, "the new site provides a dynamic, interactive, and individualized experience"!

www.thecommunityguide.org

Background on The Community Guide, from their website:

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force). It is a resource communities can use to select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school.

Community Guide reviews are designed to answer three questions:

  1. What has worked for others and how well?
  2. What might this intervention approach cost, and what am I likely to achieve through my investment?
  3. What are the evidence gaps?

The Task Force reviews intervention approaches across a wide range of health topics. The interventions are applicable to groups, communities, or other populations and include strategies such as healthcare system changes, public laws, workplace and school programs and policies, and community-based programs.

All of the intervention approaches are intended to improve health directly; prevent or reduce risky behaviors, disease, injuries, complications, or detrimental environmental or social factors; or promote healthy behaviors and environments.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force was established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in 1996 to develop guidance on which community-based health promotion and disease prevention intervention approaches work and which do not work, based on available scientific evidence. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the DHHS agency that provides the Task Force with technical and administrative support.