259026 Making CDC's Community Guide to Prevention Applicable to People with Disabilities

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 4:53 PM - 5:11 PM

Lewis Kraus, MPH, MCP , Center on Disability at the Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA
The Guide to Community Preventative Services (Community Guide) is a resource for evidence-based Task Force recommendations and findings about what works to improve public health. It is based on scientific systematic reviews to provide evidence-based decision making in community health programs. The Community Guide provides approaches and information in Obesity, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Social Environment, Tobacco, Alcohol, Violence, Cancer, Oral Health, Vaccines, Diabetes, Mental Health, HIV/STIs/Pregnancy, Adolescent Health, and Motor Vehicle. This project considered how applicable are the Community Guide recommendations and approaches for persons with disabilities. This session will present the basis for the CDC Community Guide, the need for prevention information for people with disabilities, the approaches of the project to determine how the Community Guide meets the needs of people with disabilities, and the results and plans for adjustments to the Community Guide.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain the CDC’s Community Guide 2. Discuss the need for inclusion of people with disabilities as a target for the Community Guide 3. Describe the results and plans for adapting the Community Guide.

Keywords: Disability, Health Promotion

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the Principal Investigator for a study of the applicability to people with disabilities of the CDC's Community Guide to prevention for the past year. In addition I have conducted disability research for 24 years.
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.