Model and Evidence-Based Public Health Programs and Policy ...



Model and Evidence-Based Public Health Programs and Policy Websites

8.1.2012

|Organization |Website URL |Aim |Priorities |Notes |

| | | |Addressed | |

|The Guide to Community | evidence-based recommendations |Mental health, |- Interventions reviewed by task force—look at relevance & economic plausibility and possible |

|Preventive Services |index.html |using a scientific systematic review |Obesity & |barriers of interventions |

| | |process to evaluate public health |Substance abuse |- Reviewed interventions divided by topic |

| | |interventions. | |- CDC involvement |

| | | | |- Easy to navigate |

|National Association of County | database comprised of model practices | |- Large database |

|& City Health Officials |opics/modelpractices/da|that deal with community health, |Mental health, |- ‘Promising practice’ can be searched by state, type, year and/or keyword |

| |tabase/index.cfm |environmental health, public health |Obesity & |- Categorized as a model or a promising model |

| | |infrastructure & systems, and public |Substance abuse |- Notes intervention’s responsiveness, innovation, sustainability, community involvement, etc. |

| | |health preparedness. | |- Very easy to navigate and well organized |

|The Evidence for Policy and | reliable research findings based on |Mental health, |- University of London |

|Practice Information and |ms/Default.aspx?tabid=5|systematic reviews in both the social |Obesity & |- Reviews found by topic or using chronological list |

|Co-ordination Centre |3 |science and public policy realm. |Substance abuse |- Short summaries with both ineffective and beneficial findings provided for each topic |

| | | | |- Easy to navigate |

|Partners in Information Access | for research on published |Mental health, |- Connects Health People 2012 objectives to related PubMed peer-reviewed publications |

|for the Public Health Workforce|p2020/index.html |literature related to the Healthy People |Obesity & |- Organized by topic |

| | |2020 topics. |Substance abuse |- Geared toward gathering empirical data |

| | | | |- Easy to navigate but not as beneficial for reviewed interventions or policies |

|New Tactics in Human Rights | innovativeness and provides |Mental health, |- Based on human rights issues (i.e. how to share critical info, strengthening individuals and |

| |rg/en/tactics |reviews of mostly community-level |Obesity & |communities, etc)- some not applicable |

| | |interventions hat have worked in |Substance abuse |- Can by category: prevention, restoration, intervention and building human rights cultures & |

| | |communities throughout the world. | |institutions |

| | | | |- Provides more quantitative evidence-based methods |

| | | | |- Reviews easy to comprehend |

|SAMHSA’s National Registry of | is a database that allows mental |Mental health, |- All interventions that have been rated/reviewed by individuals—but not all reviewed |

|Evidence-based Programs and |.gov/Index.aspx |health and substance abuse interventions |Obesity & |- Limited amount of publications |

|Practices | |to be posted and reviewed by individuals. |Substance abuse |- Available ‘compare option’, which allows multiple reviews to be organized side by side based |

| | | | |on outcomes, ages, race/ethnicities and settings. |

| | | | |- Easy to navigate |

|The Community Tool Box | to an extensive amount of databases |Mental health, |- List of websites that provide evidence-based interventions |

| |omisingapproach/Databas|of best practices. |Obesity & |- Easy to navigate |

| |es_Best_Practices.aspx | |Substance abuse |- Starts with generalized health- related databases and also has topic-specific intervention |

| | | | |sites |

| | | | |- Very helpful!! |

|The Center of Excellence—for |“Designed to support the planning, | |- Offers both research-tested and practice-tested interventions |

|Training and Research |rg/index.cfm |implementation, and the evaluation of | |- Has webinar series |

|Translation | |evidence-supported nutrition, physical |Obesity |- Provided interventions are well summarized and organized. |

| | |activity and obesity prevention | |- Good options!! |

| | |interventions.” | | |

|US National Library of Medicine| MANY pieces of literature from | |- Very easy to navigate |

|National—National institutes of|.gov/pubmed/ |multiple sources. Can be used to find a |Mental health, |- Allows for related articles to be found |

|Health-- PubMed | |wide variety of studies, interventions and|Obesity & |- Search by title, key words, subject, author, etc. |

| | |tested programs. |Substance abuse |- Not all peer-reviewed citations, but empirical and evidence-based |

| | | | |- Not all interventions/articles/reviews in full text |

| | | | |- Free database |

| | | | |- Very easy to navigate |

|MedlinePlus | as part of the U.S. National Library|Mental health, |- Like PubMed |

| |medlineplus/ |of Medicine, much like PubMed. |Obesity & |- Access to thousands of studies |

| | | |Substance abuse |- Many interventions can be searched for, depending on subject, keywords, etc. |

| | | | |- Free database |

|What Works for Health—‘Policies| as an evidence-based resource to | |- Suggested programs are Wisconsin specific |

|and Programs to Improve |th.wisc.edu/ |supply a database of scientifically proven| |- Search by category—Diet and exercise section applicable |

|Wisconsin’s Health’ | |and expert approved policies and programs.|Obesity |- Somewhat easy to navigate |

| | | | |- Organized by type of policy/program, evidence rating and who the decision maker is for the |

| | | | |specific program |

| | | | |- Provides citations for each selected type of program |

|Centers for Disease Control and| ability to plan for |Mental health, |- Mostly focused on chronic disease and health disparity issues, but there is available |

|Prevention |v/dach_chaps/Default/in|implementation and evaluation of community|Obesity & |literature on the three focus sections. |

| |dex.aspx |health interventions and programs. |Substance abuse |- Reliable source |

| | | | |- Search by topic |

| | | | |- Not all articles/journals are relevant |

|Alcohol and Alcohol Problems | database focused on information |Substance |- Can search by keywords, author, subject, etc. |

|Science Databse—NIAAA |ov/ |pertaining to alcohol research. |(alcohol) abuse |- Easy to navigate |

| | | | |- Provides many ‘hits’ on searches |

| | | | |- Alcohol- specific |

|The Cochrane Library | of seven individual databases |Mental health, |- Organized by topic/ search by category |

| |view/0/index|and is intended to provide evidence to |Obesity & |- Systematic review source |

| |.html |inform healthcare decision-making. |Substance abuse |- Large database & wide range of topics and interventions |

| | | | |- Easy to navigate and organized well |

| | | | |- Very beneficial source!! |

|Agency for Healthcare Research |(1) to improve the quality, safety, | |(1) |

|and Quality—‘Advancing |(2), and effectiveness of health | |- Not organized too well |

|Excellence in Health Care’ |ns.innovations|care for all Americans. |Mental health, |- Can search by topic (under ‘Browse’ button) |

| |_qualitytools.aspx?cate| |Obesity & |- Appears to offer more on current research on illnesses/issues vs. current interventions |

| |goryID=54805&taxonomyID| |Substance abuse |(2) |

| |=54821 | | |- Well organized |

| | | | |- Provides sources for all three topic areas |

| | | | |- More to offer than the evidence-based practice center portion of the site |

|Blueprints for Violence | to provide resources surrounding the |Mental health & |- Not too applicable, but possible outlet for substance abuse and possibly mental health |

|Prevention |/cspv/ |causes and prevention of violence. |Substance Abuse |related programs & publications |

| | | | |- Looks to focus on interventions at the youth level |

| | | | |- Possible for secondary research (sub-topics of above priorities) |

|The California Evidence-Based | child welfare related programs to| |- Rates programs on scale 1- 5/NA: (1) Well-supported by research evidence to (5) Concerning |

|Clearinghouse for Child Welfare| |inform the community about the research |Mental health & |practice, and (NR) Not able to be rated. |

|(CEBC) | |evidence for programs used or marketed in |Substance Abuse |- Well organized & easy to navigate |

| | |California. | |- Search by topic area or by specific program |

| | | | |- Programs focused on children, adolescent but some also for adults |

|Find Youth Info | to promote the goal of positive, | |- Site rates programs on a scale of 1-3 |

| | |health outcomes for youth by create and |Mental health & |- Focused on youth programs |

| | |supporting this site, identifying and |Substance Abuse |- Search by keyword |

| | |disseminating promising and effective | |- Programs well organized and easy to comprehend |

| | |strategies and promoting enhanced | |- Good site for youth-based intervention/program opportunities |

| | |collaborations. | | |

|Promising Practices Network | site offers resources that are |Mental health, |- Looks mainly at youth and family relationships |

| | |credible, research0based information on |Obesity & |- Ranking: (1) proven programs, (2) promising programs & (3) other reviewed programs. |

| | |what works to improve the lives of |Substance abuse |- Easy to locate specific portions of interventions (ex: ‘outcome’ or ‘issues to consider’) |

| | |children and families. | |- Can search but outcome area, topic, author, etc. |

|Public Health Law | initiative to promote effective |Mental health, |- Not the easiest to navigate & limited applicable information, but still a good outlet for |

|Research—‘Making the case for | |regulatory, legal and policy solutions to |Obesity & |policies that are currently in place, for example, ‘obesity prevention laws’ and ‘alcohol |

|Laws that Improve Health’ | |improve public health. |Substance abuse |policy information systems’ |

| | | | |- Valuable for current practices in each area |

| | | | |- Also provides funding opportunities (long-, short- and rapid- response funding) |

| | | | |- a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program (like PHAB) |

|Social Programs The Work | to identify those social |Mental health, |- Interventions organized by topic |

| |wordpress/ |interventions shown in rigorous studies to|Obesity & |- Ranking organization: from top to near top tier intervention |

| | |produce sizable, sustained benefits to |Substance abuse |- Can view complete intervention list with brief abstracts—very useful |

| | |participants and/or society. | |- Limited number of programs within this database |

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