This month, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) is taking The Guide to Community Preventive Services on tour to showcase its relevance to and highlight its recommendations on three popular public health topics: vaccines, community health, and nursing.

 

The Community Guide is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community.  The Community Guide is the best place to find evidence-based recommendations and findings from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, nonfederal, volunteer body of public health and prevention experts, whose members are appointed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  

 

Community Guide materials including bookmarks, topic-specific slide sets, and informational flyers will be available to conference attendees.  Attendees will also be able to enter the “I’m Your Community Guide” contest by sharing how they’ve implemented The Community Guide in their area.  The top three submissions will win meeting registration credit for one public health conference.

 

Look for us at the following events this month to learn more about how you can use The Community Guide’s recommendations and findings to improve the health of your community.

 

Vaccines
Visit the PHF table at the 45th National Immunization Conference, which will be held in Washington, DC from March 28-31. his conference will provide information to help participants provide comprehensive immunization coverage for all age groups. To increase vaccination rates, The Community Guide recommends interventions such as home visits, vaccination programs in schools and organized child care centers, and client reminder and recall systems. or a complete list of vaccination recommendations, click here.

 

Community Health
Learn more about The Community Guide at the Annual Conference of the Association for Community Health Improvement on March 29-31 in Austin, TX. his year’s theme, “Shaping the Future,” will focus on how to anticipate and adapt to the changing health landscape brought by health reform. he Community Guide provides evidence-based strategies to address community health issues including obesity and violence. Click here for a complete list of Community Guide topics.

 

Nursing
Join PHF at the 21st Annual Convention of the Society of Pediatric Nurses from March 31-April 1 in Las Vegas, NV.  This year’s event will center on making health care safe for children and families. The Community Guide recommends ways to improve adolescent health including person-to-person interventions to improve caregivers’ parenting skills and school based programs to reduce violence. Visit the adolescent health section of The Community Guide here.
 
For more information about these and other public health events, visit PHF’s event page. Click here for more information about what PHF is doing to promote The Community Guide.