The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Paperback)

Task Force on Community Preventive Services

ISBN 10: 0195151097 / ISBN 13: 9780195151091

Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2005

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Paperback. 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 developedduring systematic reviews. This volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to combat such risky behaviors as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and violence; to reduce the impact and suffering ofspecific conditions such as cancer, diabetes, vaccine-preventable diseases, and motor vehicle injuries; and to address social determinants oh health such as education, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into three broad categories: changing risk behaviors; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Paperback)
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195151097
• ISBN 13: 9780195151091
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: new

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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 behaviors 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 oh health such as education, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into three broad categories: changing risk behaviors; reducing specific diseases, injuries, and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself.

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