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;

Related Information

• Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Development: A Review of Scientific Methods, Current Practices, and Future Potential
• Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Development: A Review of Scientific Methods, Current Practices, and Future Potential—Report of Proceedings from a Public Forum and Interviews of Experts
• Recommended Practices for Enhancing Community Health Improvement (Work Group for Community Health and Development, Univ. of Kansas, October 7, 2011. Note that this resource is part of The Community Tool Box)
• 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

Contact OPTH staff if you have questions or need additional information.