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Presentation Materials
Community Guide Overview Slides
The following slide sets can be used together or with any of the topic-specific slides, depending on the focus of your presentation. Feel free to mix slides from different sets to accommodate presentation length, learning objectives and audience needs. We recommend, however, that you do the following:
- Use the slides word-for-word, as cleared by Community Guide scientists
- Always include slides from the first set below to describe the Community Guide and Community Preventive Services Task Force
The Community Guide: A Brief Overview [PDF - 244 kB] – These slides describe the purpose of the Community Guide, its relationship to the CPSTF, how it identifies evidence-based interventions and the expert team involved in doing so.
The Community Guide: Using Systematic Reviews to Inform Task Force Recommendations [PDF - 800 kB] – This set of slides is designed for those interested in the scientific methods used for Community Guide systematic reviews. The slides describe how Community Guide systematic reviews are conducted and used by the CPSTF, as well as how CPSTF findings and recommendations are disseminated for use.
Topic-Specific Slides
The following slides summarize CPSTF findings on specific Community Guide topics.
Motor Vehicle
Using Evidence for Public Health Decision Making: Motor Vehicle-Related Injury Prevention [PDF - 320 kB]
Violence Prevention
Using Evidence for Public Health Decision Making: Violence Prevention Focused on Children and Youth [PDF - 466 kB]
Worksite Health Promotion
Using Evidence for Public Health Decision Making: Assessment of Health Risks with Feedback to Change Employees’ Health [PDF - 307 kB]
Webinars
The links feature webinars about The Community Guide that are available to the public.
About the Community Guide
Introduction to The Community Guide (April 15, 2019)
Developed by CSTE in collaboration with The Community Guide
Cancer
Tools of the Trade: Multicomponent Interventions to Increase Cancer Screening (July 18, 2017)
Developed by the National Cancer Institute in collaboration with The Community Guide
Using The Community Guide to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening (May 6, 2019)
Developed by CSTE in collaboration with The Community Guide
Cardiovascular Disease
Overview of the new Best Practices Guide for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Programs (December 12, 2017)
Developed by CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Community Health Workers
Engaging Community Health Workers to Prevent and Manage Disease (September 20, 2017)
Developed by The Community Guide
Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Indian Health Service Clinical Grand Rounds: Preventing Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Related Harms (September 19, 2013)
Developed by The Community Guide and hosted by the Indian Health Service
Physical Activity
Built Environment Interventions to Increase Physical Activity: Community Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations (October 11, 2017)
Developed by the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research in collaboration with The Community Guide
Tobacco
Indian Health Service Clinical Grand Rounds: Tobacco Prevention Control Update from The Community Guide (September 25, 2014)
Developed by The Community Guide and hosted by the Indian Health Service
Violence
Interventions That Work: Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Among Youth (October 24, 2018)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health with support from The Community Guide and CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention
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