Promising Practices
The Promising Practices database informs professionals and community members about documented approaches to improving community health and quality of life.
The ultimate goal is to support the systematic adoption, implementation, and evaluation of successful programs, practices, and policy changes. The database provides carefully reviewed, documented, and ranked practices that range from good ideas to evidence-based practices.
Learn more about the ranking methodology.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Client-Oriented Screening Interventions: Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs: Breast Cancer (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults, Women
The goal of the interventions is to reduce client out-of-pocket costs to minimize or remove economic barriers that make it difficult for clients to access cancer screening services.
Costs can be reduced through a variety of approaches, including vouchers, reimbursements, reduction in co-pays, or adjustments in federal or state insurance coverage. Efforts to reduce client costs may be combined with client education, information about programs, or measures to reduce barriers.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Interventions to Reduce Depression Among Older Adults: Clinic-Based Depression Care Management (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Older Adults
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Interventions to Reduce Depression Among Older Adults: Home-Based Depression Care Management (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Older Adults
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Mental Health & Mental Illness: Collaborative Care for the Management of Depressive Disorders (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Adults
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Obesity Prevention and Control: Technology-Supported Multicomponent Coaching or Counseling Interventions to Reduce Weight and Maintain Weight Loss (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Adults
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Preventing Excessive Alcohol Consumption: Maintaining Limits on Hours of Sale (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Adults
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends limiting access to alcohol by regulating the hours it can be sold as they found that increasing the hours available for alcohol sale can result in an increase in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Maintaining Current Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) Laws (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Prevention & Safety, Adults
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Reducing Tobacco Use Initiation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Other Interventions (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens, Adults
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Prevention & Safety, Children, Families