The gold standard for evidence-based public health, The Guide to CommunityPreventive Services is a primary resource to improve health and prevent diseasein states, communities, independent, nonfederal Task Force on CommunityPreventive Services, The Guide uses comprehensive systemic review methods toevaluate population-oriented health interventions. The recommendations of theTask Force are explicitly linked to the scientific evidence developed duringsystematic reviews. This volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency ofinterventions to combat such risky behaviors as tobacco use, physicalinactivity, and violence; to reduce the impact and suffering of specificconditions such as cancer, diabetes, vaccine-preventable diseases, and motorvehicle injuries; and to address social determinants oh health such aseducation, housing, and access to care. The chapters are grouped into threebroad categories: changing risk behaviors; reducing specific diseases, injuries,and impairments; and methodological background for the book itself.