Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Prevention & Chronic Care
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health & Safety Topics
- Health.gov
- Healthy People 2020
- National Prevention Strategy
- Partnership for Prevention
- Prevention Institute
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Trust for America’s Health: Resource Library
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Prevention
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Ideas for Action
- Professional Research Consultants Community Health Connection Quarterly Newsletter
- American Hospital Association’s Community Connections
- Blueprints for Violence Prevention
- Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Communities Putting Prevention to Work
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Guide to Community Preventive Services
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Strategies Snapshot: Community Health in Action
- ChildTRENDS — Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS)
- Community Toolbox, Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas
- County Health Rankings and Roadmaps' "What Works for Health"
- Find Youth Info
- Health Evidence (free to register)
- National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices: Health Division
- National Organization of County & City Health Officials: Model Practice Database
- New York Academy of Medicine’s Compendium of Proven Community-Based Interventions
- NREPP: National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Model Program Guide
- Promising Practices Network
- SAMHSA’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practices
- Social Programs That Work
- World Health Organization: Interventions on Diet and Physical Activity: What Works
Opportunities
On August 23, 2016, South Florida Baptist Hospital convened a meeting of 19 hospital representatives and community stakeholders (representing a cross section of community-based agencies and organizations) to evaluate, discuss and prioritize health needs for the hospital’s service area, based on findings of this Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). This exercise prioritized the following health needs:Diabetes
Access to Healthcare Services
Mental Health
Heart Disease & Stroke
Nutrition, Physical Activity & Weight
Substance Abuse
Respiratory Diseases
Cancer
Infant Health & Family Planning
Oral Health
Dementias, Including Alzheimer's Disease
Injury & Violence
Potentially Disabling Conditions
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
HIV/AIDS