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
The following health topics represent recommended areas of intervention, based on the findings of this Community Health Needs Assessment (presented alphabetically, rather than in order of importance):- Cancer
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Diabetes
- Heart Disease & Stroke
- HIV/AIDS
- Immunization & Infectious Diseases
- Infant Health & Family Planning
- Injury & Violence
- Mental Health
- Nutrition, Physical Activity & Weight
- Respiratory Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Substance Abuse
- Tobacco Use