The Community Guide
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Recommendations from the Community Preventive Services Task Force. |
Pediatric, Senior, Adult, Adolescent |
The Community Guide: CPSTF Findings for Obesity
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends several youth interventions promoting physical activity and healthy eating, access to affordable healthy food and beverages, healthy food and beverage choices, and fostering physical activity among children, reducing sedentary screen time, and using digital health interventions for weight management. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
The Community Guide: Cardiovascular Disease
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force has several resources related to community-focused interventions for blood pressure monitoring, management, and control. |
Adult, Senior |
The Community Guide: Collaborative Care for the Management of Depressive Disorders
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends collaborative care for the management of depressive disorders based on strong evidence of effectiveness in improving depression symptoms, adherence to treatment, response to treatment, and remission and recovery from depression.
The CPSTF also finds that collaborative care models provide good economic value based on the weight of evidence from studies that assessed both costs and benefits. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
The Community Guide: Community-Wide Campaigns to Promote the Use of Folic Acid Supplements
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends community-wide education campaigns to promote the use of folic acid supplements among persons of childbearing age. |
Adolescent, Adult |
The Community Guide: Dental Caries (Cavities): Community Water Fluoridation
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends community water fluoridation to reduce tooth decay (i.e., dental caries or cavities). |
Pediatric |
The Community Guide: Diabetes
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Combined diet and physical activity promotion programs to prevent type 2 diabetes among people at increased risk, from the Community Preventive Services Task Force. |
Adult, Senior |
The Community Guide: Exercise Programs to Prevent Gestational Hypertension
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends exercise programs for pregnant women to reduce the development of gestational hypertension. |
Adolescent, Adult |
The Community Guide: Findings for Cancer Prevention and Control
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Community Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening |
Pediatric, Senior, Adult, Adolescent |
The Community Guide: Findings for Obesity
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends multicomponent interventions that use technology-supported coaching or counseling to help nonpregnant adults lose weight and maintain weight loss. |
Adult |
The Community Guide: Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Psychological Harm for Traumatic Events Among Children and Adolescents
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for symptomatic youth who have been exposed to traumatic events based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing psychological harm. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
The Community Guide: HIV, STIs, and Teen Pregnancy
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force has issued several recommendations on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs, and teen pregnancy. |
Adolescent, Senior, Adult |
The Community Guide: Individual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Psychological Harm for Traumatic Events Among Children and Adolescents
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for symptomatic youth who have been exposed to traumatic events based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing psychological harm. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |
The Community Guide: Mental Health Benefits Legislation
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends mental health benefits legislation to increase appropriate utilization of mental health services for persons with mental health conditions. |
Adult, Senior |
The Community Guide: Nutrition
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends several community-based interventions to promote a healthy diet. |
Adult, Senior |
The Community Guide: Physical Activity
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends several community-based interventions to promote physical activity. |
Adult, Senior |
The Community Guide: Pregnancy Health
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends exercise programs during pregnancy to reduce the development of gestational hypertension. |
Adult |
The Community Guide: School-Based Dental Sealant Delivery Programs to Prevent Caries
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends school-based programs to deliver dental sealants and prevent dental caries (tooth decay) among children. |
Pediatric |
The Community Guide: Skin Cancer
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions for skin cancer prevention in child care centers; primary and middle schools; outdoor occupational, recreational, and tourism settings; and communities. |
Adolescent, Senior, Adult |
The Community Guide: Targeted School-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Programs to Reduce Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends targeted school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms among school-aged children and adolescents who are assessed to be at increased risk for these conditions. |
Pediatric, Adolescent |