Guide to Community Preventive Services
Evidence-based recommendations for programs and policies to promote population health.

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) was convened by the Public Health Service to evaluate clinical research in order to assess the merits of preventive measures, including screening tests, counseling, immunizations, and preventive medications.

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project
From the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical Schoo.l

Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project
The purpose of this site is to make information and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives easier to find.

US Preventive Services Task Force
An independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services.

Evidence-based Practice Centers
The EPCs review relevant literature on clinical, behavioral, and organization and financing topics to produce evidence reports and technology assessments. These reports are used for informing and developing coverage decisions, quality measures, educational materials and tools, guidelines, and research agendas. The EPCs also conduct research on methodology of systematic reviews.

Cochrane Reviews (and Protocols) of Relevance to Health Promotion and Public Health
Systematic reviews of effectiveness of health promotion and public health interventions. This site also directs people to other sources of systematic reviews when topics have not been covered in the The Cochrane Library.

Health-Evidence.CA
Reviews which evaluate the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions.

National Center for Health Statistics
Statistical information.

CDC Recommends
A searchable storehouse of documents containing recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health, prevention, and public health practice issues.

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
CHID lists a wealth of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere.

Health Communication Materials Database
From Johns Hopkins, a database giving access to a collection of health communication materials.

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries.

Model Practices Database (National Association of County & City Health Officials)
A database of model practices in Community Health, Environmental Health, and Public Health Infrastructure and Preparedness.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Click on ?Publications and Presentations?

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