Public Health and Prevention Resources
- American Public Health Association
- Healthy Communities 2020
- Institute of Medicine, Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002, p.204.
- Grantmakers in Health
- National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
- National Association of County and City Health Officials
- National Business Group on Health
- Policy Link
- Prevention Institute
- The Prevention Quality Indicators developed by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) identify hospital admissions that could have potentially been avoided through high-quality community-based primary care:
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Standards for local public health system assessment can be found in the National Public Health Performance Standards Program
- Health Planning in the United States: Selected Policy Issues, Report of a Study, Volume I, Institute of Medicine, 1981, p.34.
- For information about evidence based interventions to address tobacco, obesity, and other diseases, visit the CDC Community Guide website at: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html
- Trust for America's Health
