Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health (PDF)

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) is a collection of evidence-based findings and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Community Preventive Services Task Force. The task force has issued evidence-based findings and recommendations for more than 210 population-based interventions covering 18 topic areas and settings designed to do the following: (1) Promote healthy behaviors/reduce unhealthy behaviors; (2) Reduce specific diseases, injuries, or impairments; and (3) Promote healthy behaviors in community settings. This fact sheet provides an overview of the Community Guide, lists the 18 topic areas, and provides information on how local health departments can use the recommendations.