Office of Prevention through Healthcare

The Office of Prevention through Healthcare

• uses policy tools to gain the maximum preventive benefit from the clinical system and to integrate clinical care with community health interventions;
• draws upon expertise and functional roles resident in other units of the Office of the Associate Director for Policy as well as from across CDC to apply that expertise and functionality to advancing prevention through healthcare.

Information and Resources

• Resources for Implementing the Community Health Needs Assessment Process
• Principles to Consider for the Implementation of a Community Health Needs Assessment Process - New
• A Framework for Patient-Centered Health Risk Assessments
• Proceedings on Health Risk Assessment Guidance Development
• Health Risk Assessment Public Forum, February 1–2, 2011
• CDC Vital Signs: Access to Health Care
• MMWR: Vital Signs: Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Utilization—United States, 2006–2009 and January–March 2010
• CDC Features: Health Care: See Why Being Insured Matters
• Vital Minute Podcast: Access to Health Care
• Affordable Care Act