We know what works to improve health, and there is an unprecedented opportunity right now to build the evidence base and make our efforts even stronger. Here's how:
- Focus on equity, making sure that resources go not just to communities who can quickly and effectively put prevention in place, but also to assist those communities who need extra support for planning and implementation.
- Make the case for community prevention even richer, by supporting research and evaluation efforts that identify what works.
- Build cross-sector and cross-issue partnerships.
- Make health a priority in all of our policies and all of our work.
To that end, here are some important documents that will help you make the case for community prevention.
- Good Health Counts. Advancing community health approach through the use of social determinants of health data and intersectoral involvement.
- Making the Economic Case for Prevention. Collecting evidence, developing models, and disseminating results to illustrate the return on investment in prevention.
- Setting the National Prevention Agenda. Raising the national profile of prevention by outlining specific strategies and promoting a comprehensive national agenda.
