Sedgwick County Health Department - Office of Health Promotion: Tobacco: 3rd Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
March 27, 2013
Community Guide UseThe Sedgwick County Health Department in Kansas used the evidence-based recommendation of smoking bans and restrictions from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to achieve an increase in smoke-free multi-unit dwellings in their community. Click the PDF...
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Michigan Cancer Consortium: 1st Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
Community Guide UseThe Michigan Cancer Consortium (MCC) used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates among their 7,000 employees and employee dependents. Click the PDF icon to download the full text of this Com...
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Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron: 2nd Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
Community Guide UseThe Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, Ohio used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to develop, implement, and evaluate a diabetes management program, which resulted in a combined weight loss of 115.1 pounds and 22.8 point body mass index (BMI) decrease in 14 ...
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Central Michigan District Health Department: 3rd Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
Community Guide UseThe Central Michigan District Health Department (CMDHD) used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to complete and approve the 2012 Together We Can Community Health Assessment and Health Improvement Plan, their strategic plan, to improve health in their com...
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Adoption and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Public Health: 2012 Success Stories from PHF's "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
In February 2012, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) launched the 2012 “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest to help identify model practices for implementing the evidence-based strategies outlined in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide). Success stories were submitted into the...
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Public Health Quality Improvement Encyclopedia
June 5, 2012
Quality improvement (QI) in public health is the use of a deliberate and defined improvement process, such as Plan-Do-Check-Act, which is focused on activities that are responsive to community needs and improving population health. It is essential for health departments to use QI tools to fulfill their...
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St. James-Santee Family Health Center: 1st Place Winner, “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 27, 2011
Community Guide UseThe St. James-Santee Family Health Center used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to implement a breast and cervical cancer screening promotion program, which increased Pap smear and mammogram rates by 10% and decreased missed appointment rates by 30%...
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Duval County Health Department: 2nd Place Winner, “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 27, 2011
Community Guide UseThe Duval County Health Department used vaccination findings and recommendations from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to increase 4:3:1:3:3:1 series immunization rates among their two-year-old population by 15% in two years. Click the PDF icon to ...
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Whidbey General Hospital: 3rd Place Winner, “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 27, 2011
Community Guide UseWhidbey General Hospital used tobacco interventions from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to achieve a tobacco quit rate of 35-40% in one year. Click the PDF icon to download the full text of this Community Guide success story.
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Increasing Tob...
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Adoption and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Public Health: Success Stories from PHF’s “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 26, 2011
In June 2011, the Public Health Foundation’s “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest helped to identify model practices for implementing the evidence-based strategies outlined in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide). Fourteen success stories were entered into the contest, which...
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