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The Community Guide: HIV, STIs, and Teen Pregnancy
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force has issued several recommendations on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs, and teen pregnancy. |
Adolescent, Senior, Adult |
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The Community Guide: Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Psychological Harm for Traumatic Events Among Children and Adolescents
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for symptomatic youth who have been exposed to traumatic events based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing psychological harm. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
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The Community Guide: Findings for Obesity
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends multicomponent interventions that use technology-supported coaching or counseling to help nonpregnant adults lose weight and maintain weight loss. |
Adult |
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The Community Guide: Findings for Cancer Prevention and Control
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Community Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening |
Pediatric, Senior, Adult, Adolescent |
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The Community Guide: Exercise Programs to Prevent Gestational Hypertension
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends exercise programs for pregnant women to reduce the development of gestational hypertension. |
Adolescent, Adult |
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The Community Guide: Diabetes
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Combined diet and physical activity promotion programs to prevent type 2 diabetes among people at increased risk, from the Community Preventive Services Task Force. |
Adult, Senior |
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The Community Guide: Dental Caries (Cavities): Community Water Fluoridation
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends community water fluoridation to reduce tooth decay (i.e., dental caries or cavities). |
Pediatric |
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The Community Guide: Community-Wide Campaigns to Promote the Use of Folic Acid Supplements
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends community-wide education campaigns to promote the use of folic acid supplements among persons of childbearing age. |
Adolescent, Adult |
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The Community Guide: Collaborative Care for the Management of Depressive Disorders
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends collaborative care for the management of depressive disorders based on strong evidence of effectiveness in improving depression symptoms, adherence to treatment, response to treatment, and remission and recovery from depression.
The CPSTF also finds that collaborative care models provide good economic value based on the weight of evidence from studies that assessed both costs and benefits. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
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The Community Guide: Cardiovascular Disease
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force has several resources related to community-focused interventions for blood pressure monitoring, management, and control. |
Adult, Senior |
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The Community Guide: CPSTF Findings for Obesity
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends several youth interventions promoting physical activity and healthy eating, access to affordable healthy food and beverages, healthy food and beverage choices, and fostering physical activity among children, reducing sedentary screen time, and using digital health interventions for weight management. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
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The Community Guide
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Recommendations from the Community Preventive Services Task Force. |
Pediatric, Senior, Adult, Adolescent |
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The Collaborative Care Model (CMS)
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The collaborative care model offers one approach to integration in which primary care providers, care managers, and psychiatric consultants work together to provide care and monitor patients' progress. Programs using this model have achieved improved clinical outcomes and reduced costs for a variety of mental health conditions, in a variety of settings, using several different payment mechanisms. This brief highlights the collaborative care model as a potential option for implementing integrated care under the Medicaid health homes authority described in Section 2703 of the Affordable Care Act. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
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Testing Recommendations for Hepatitis C Virus Infection (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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CDC's testing recommendations for hepatitis C virus infection are outlined at the link. |
Adult, Senior |
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TB Centers of Excellence for Training, Education, and Medical Consultation
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The CDC offers expert medical consultation to US clinicians with questions about patients being evaluated for tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis infection. |
Adult, Senior |
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T-ACE - 4-item Alcohol Screener for Pregnant Women
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The T-ACE, a four-item questionnaire based on the CAGE, is a simple screening instrument that can identify women's prenatal consumption. T-ACE has been tested in a wide variety of obstetric practices and has proven to be a valuable and efficient tool for identifying a range of alcohol use, including any current prenatal alcohol consumption, pre-pregnancy risk drinking (defined as more than two drinks per drinking day), and lifetime alcohol diagnoses based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised. |
Adolescent, Adult |
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Suicide Prevention Resource Center
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The Suicide Prevention Resource Center, supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, offers various resources on suicide prevention. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
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Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: AFP's Putting Prevention Into Practice
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The journal American Family Physician (AFP) provides a series of short case studies and quizzes based on recommendations issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. |
Adult, Senior |
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Smoking and Tobacco Use: Patient Care (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Health care clinician resources for treatment of tobacco use and dependence from the CDC. |
Adult, Senior |
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SmokeFree.Gov Health Professionals Page
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Health care providers, community health workers, and other professionals can get resources to share with patients and clients. |
Adult, Senior |
