An integrated framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention
By: Committee on Valuing Community-Based, Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780309263542
Subjects: Preventive health services; Health promotion; Health Promotion; Program Evaluation; Primary Prevention; Community health services; Community Health Services; Preventive Health Services
Other titles: Assessing the value of community-based prevention; Community based prevention
Description: "During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases to those due to chronic diseases. Just as the major causes of morbidity and mortality have changed, so too has the understanding of health and what makes people healthy or ill. Research has documented the importance of the social determinants of health (for example, socioeconomic status and education) that affect health directly as well as through their impact on other health determinants such as risk factors. Targeting interventions toward the conditions associated with today's challenges to living a healthy life requires an increased emphasis on the factors that affect the current cause of morbidity and mortality, factors such as the social determinants of health. Many community-based prevention interventions target such conditions. Community-based prevention interventions offer three distinct strengths.^

First, because the intervention is implemented population-wide it is inclusive and not dependent on access to a health care system. Second, by directing strategies at an entire population an intervention can reach individuals at all levels of risk. And finally, some lifestyle and behavioral risk factors are shaped by conditions not under an individual's control. For example, encouraging an individual to eat healthy food when none is accessible undermines the potential for successful behavioral change. Community-based prevention interventions can be designed to affect environmental and social conditions that are out of the reach of clinical services. Four foundations - the California Endowment, the de Beaumont Foundation, the W.K.^

Kellogg Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - asked the Institute of Medicine to convene an expert committee to develop a framework for assessing the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies, especially those targeting the prevention of long-term, chronic diseases. The charge to the committee was to define community-based, non-clinical prevention policy and wellness strategies; define the value for community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies; and analyze current frameworks used to assess the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies, including the methodologies and measures used and the short- and long-term impacts of such prevention policy and wellness strategies on health care spending and public health. An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention summarizes the committee's findings"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (National Academies Press, viewed Dec. 11, 2012).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Community-based prevention; title: Community-based prevention: more than the sum of its parts; title: Existing frameworks; title: A framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention.