School-Based Health Centers to Promote Health Equity: Recommendation of the Community Preventive Services Task Force.

Recommendation for Center-Based Early Childhood Education to Promote Health Equity.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends early childhood education programs based on strong evidence of effectiveness in improving educational outcomes associated with long-term health and sufficient evidence of effectiveness in improving social- and health-related outcomes. When provided to low-income or racial and ethnic minority communities, early childhood education programs ...

High school completion programs recommended to improve health equity.

Task Force Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends high school completion programs for students at high risk for non-completion, based on strong evidence of effectiveness. The Task Force also recommends high school completion programs for a subset of students who are at risk for non-completion because they are pregnant or have children, based on strong evidence of effect...

Recommendations Regarding Education Programs and Policies to Promote Health Equity — Community Preventive Services Task Force

Recommendations to promote healthy social environments.

Social environments lacking in basic resources— healthy food, safe housing, living-wage jobs, decent schools, supportive social networks, access to health care and other public and private goods and services—are the very environments with the highest public health risk for serious illness and premature death. Understanding the reasons why this happens requires an ecologic approach to population...

Primary care interventions to promote breastfeeding: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement.

DESCRIPTION Update of a 2003 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on counseling to promote breastfeeding. METHODS The USPSTF evaluated the results of a systematic review, conducted by the Tufts-New England Medical Center Evidence-based Practice Center, of literature published since January 2007 on primary care-initiated, -conducted, or -referable activities to promote a...