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Guide to Community Preventive Services by Stephanie Zaza & Peter A. Briss & Kate W. Harris
What Works to Promote Health?
A primary resource to improve health and prevent disease in states, communities, community organizations, businesses, healthcare organizations, and schools, this volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to combat risky behaviours.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 behaviours 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 on health such as education, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into three broad categories: changing risk behaviours; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself. |
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| ISBN-10 : 0195151097 | ISBN-13 : 9780195151091 |
| RRP : £19.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 31/03/2005
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page Length : 506mm
Page Size : 233mm