Preventive care processes

This guide teaches communities how to organize and implement the KidsWalk-to-School program, which aims to get children to walk and bicycle to and from school in groups accompanied by adults. This gives kids a chance to be more physically active, to practice safe pedestrian skills, and to learn more about their environment. At the same time, KidsWalk-to-School encourages people to change their neighborhoods for the better, working together, to make walking a safe and enjoyable part of...

This 40-page guide, written for primary care and mental health clinicians, provides information for incorporating alcohol screening and intervention into clinical practice. The guide addresses two methods for screening: a single question (about heavy drinking days) to be used during a clinical interview and a written self-report instrument.

This guide addresses the following topics:

• Introduction
• What’s the same, what’s new in the 2005 update
• Before you begin...

These screening instruments can aid clinicians and others in identifying patients with alcohol problems.

The following screening tools are presented:

• CAGE: Can identify alcohol problems over the lifetime
• T-ACE: Based on the CAGE, this tool is valuable for identifying a range of use, including lifetime use and prenatal use
• Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): Can detect alcohol problems experienced in the last year

These Community How To Guides address fundamental components of planning and implementing a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program. The guides are designed to be brief, easy to read, and easy to use.

This chart presents the following categories of screening and immunization recommendations for men in different age groups:

• General health
• Heart health
• Diabetes
• Prostate health
• Reproductive health
• Colorectal health
• Eye and ear health
• Skin health
• Oral health
• Mental health screening
• Immunizations

This fact sheet addresses the importance of a Pap test and pelvic exam.

This fact sheet provides answers to the following questions on Pap tests and pelvic exams:

• What is a Pap test?
• What is a pelvic exam?
• Why are a Pap test and pelvic exam important?
• Who performs a Pap test?
• How is a Pap test done?
• How often should a woman have a Pap test?
• When should the Pap test be done?
• How are the results of a Pap test reported?...

This 19-page guide presents information to help older adults avoid problems with medication use.

This guide addresses the following topics:

• Aging and health: You and your medicines
• Talk to your health care professionals
• What you need to know about your prescription medicines
• Taking prescription medicines
• Taking over-the-counter medicines
• Cutting medicine costs
• Tips for seniors on safe medicine use
• My medicine record...

This summary provides information to health care professionals on prostate cancer prevention.

This summary addresses the following topics:

• Summary of evidence
  • Benefits from finasteride chemoprevention
  • Harms from finasteride chemoprevention
  • Benefits and harms of other prevention interventions
• Significance
  • Incidence and mortality
• Risk factors for prostate cancer development
  • ...

Many communities and organizations lack the resources to create new health promotion materials that address the cultural and linguistic needs of their local populations. This 12-page guide aims to assist these groups in making appropriate choices among existing materials and provides recommendations for adapting such materials for use in health promotion efforts.

This guide addresses the following topics:

• Values and guiding principles for assuring cultural and linguistic...

The Emory University Reynolds Program has established the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Pocket Card to be used as a teaching module reference for providers caring for geriatric patients.

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This pocket card addresses the following topics:

• Basics in Geriatrics “Big 10” - 10 principles that differentiate the care of older patients from other patient populations
• Recommendations for Geriatric Assessment - a chart plotting the Big...