The Guide to Community Preventive Services: update on development and dissemination activities.

ABSTRACT

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) aims to improve public health practice by increasing the use of effective interventions. The Community Guide summarizes what is known regarding the effectiveness of selected population-based interventions and information about additional benefits and harms of the interventions. Community Guide reviews of interventions for improving vaccine coverage rates and reducing tobacco use have been recently completed and released. Interventions that have been recommended for use based on these reviews are being implemented via national projects. This article describes the status of development of Community Guide reviews and the initiation of dissemination, implementation, and evaluation efforts.