Fifth, for some health problems, community-level interventions may be more effective than clinical preventive services. Our research suggests that while the clinician's office is a powerful site for prevention, community-level interventions can be even more powerful for pursuing aims such as injury prevention or smoking cessation. My experience with the Task Force says it is. We can reduce costs by conscientiously avoiding preventive practices that do not help, instead focusing resources where the evidence says we should. If we do that, and if we continue to design even more effective preventive methods, we have a tremendous opportunity to save years and years of life, and to help people live better during those years.
Prevention has great promise, and prevention grounded in science has the greatest promise of all.
D.C. Good morning. In both capacities, I am delighted to add my congratulations to the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on the release of the second edition of the Guide. It is an outstanding achievement. I want to speak for a minute this morning about the future of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. In the six years since the first edition of the Task Force report was published, it has been very influential, both in content and in form.