Community Preventive Services Guide Development Activity
The Community Preventive Services Guide Development Activity
coordinates support to the Task Force on Community Preventive
Services in the development of the Guide
to Community Preventive Services (the Guide) . The Guide will
summarize what is known about the effectiveness of population-based
interventions for prevention and control of public health problems.
The purpose of the Guide is to provide public health agencies and
managed care organizations with information on the effectiveness of
interventions for informed decision making.
Evaluation and Behavioral Science Methods Branch
In 1995, through a competitive cooperative agreement, CDC
established Urban Centers' in three major cities with with
disadvantaged populations (Seattle, Detroit, and New York City) in
order to evaluate (in collaboration with health departments,
community-based organizations, and academia) the effectiveness of
interdisciplinary approaches to the underlying problems affecting
the health of inner city populations. Utilizing the community
participatory action research model, the community, in collaboration
with the urban research center, decides the research focus and
participates at every level of decision making. Early foci of
research include asthma and violence.
Prevention Effectiveness Branch
The mission of the Prevention Effectiveness Branch (PEB) is to use
scientific quantitative policy methods to fundamentally change and
improve public health decision-making in such a way that public
health and health care programs and policies deliver the greatest
possible improvement in the health and quality of life of a given
population for the expenditure made. Major activities supporting
this mission include:
- Prevention Research Internship
- Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship
- Prevention Effectiveness
Seminars/Training Courses
- Technical Assistance
- Prevention Effectiveness Work Group
- CDC-wide Economics Task Order Contract
- Advancement of new methods for
prevention effectiveness research
Statistics and Epidemiology Branch
The Statistics and Epidemiology Branch plays a central role in
CDC's developing expertise in emerging statistical and epidemiologic
methods, a charge which emanated from the 1991 CDC Methods Retreat.
This role includes responsibilities of statistical and epidemiologic
consulting, collaboration, teaching and training; development,
application and evaluation of statistical and epidemiologic methods;
and coordination of statistical activities and capacity-building
across CDC, a unique role within the agency. Major activities of the
Branch include:
- Analytic Methods Seminars
- Analytic Methods Internship Program
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Technical Assistance
- CDC-wide Statistical and Epidemiologic
Methods Task Order Contract
- CDC Statistical Advisory Group
Office of HealthCare Partnerships
The mission of the Office of HealthCare Partnerships (OHCP) is
to promote and support effective CDC-wide partnerships for
prevention with the principal players in our nation's health care
delivery system, including managed care organizations, public and
private purchasers of health care, public health agencies,
accrediting organizations, researchers, consumers and others. Major
priorities include:
- ensuring effective partnerships for
prevention
- promoting a prevention focus in evolving
regional and national systems of care
- facilitating CIO prevention efforts in
the purchaser, provider, and quality arenas