253858 Update on the Guide to Community Preventive Services

Monday, October 31, 2011: 2:35 PM

Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, MA, MBA , Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
     
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) conducts systematic reviews that analyze all available scientific evidence on what works to improve and protect health. Policymakers, practitioners, and other public health decision makers in a wide range of community settings use the Community Guide's evidence-based findings and recommendations to make informed decisions about allocating their scarce resources to effective programs, services and policies. Dr. Fielding will briefly discuss the purpose and value of the Community Guide and its relationship to other initiatives such as Healthy People 2020 and the National Prevention Council, and it will provide an update on the range of existing Community Guide recommendations.

Dr. Fielding will also describe how Los Angeles County Health Department utilizes the Community Guide to develop and implement its public health activities. This will include discussion of how the Health Department has institutionalized the Community Guide through using the Guide's evidence-based recommendations about effective programs, policies, and services as the basis for establishing and strengthening accountability and performance measures critical for achieving important public health goals.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the role and value of the Guide to Community Preventive Services in providing the evidence base for community health. 2. Discuss how the Community Guide, Healthy People 2020, and other federally-sponsored initiatives work together in strengthening community health action. 3. Identify at least three topics of importance to community health for which the Community Guide has recently undertaken reviews.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I serve as the Chair of the US Community Preventive Services Task Force, and am Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health where I am responsible for all public health functions including surveillance and control of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and health protection for the County’s 10+ million residents.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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