Population Health and Prevention

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Population Health and Prevention

• Recommendations
• Advocate as a field that the US Task Force for
  Preventive Services and the Task Force for
  Community Preventative Services work on MH issues
  and integration into primary care as well as
  revise the evidence standards
• Advocate that health reform prevention focus
  on MH promotion and include such partners AHRQ,
  CDC, SAMHSA, NIMH, HRSA
• Recognize the role of Public Health Advocates in
  promoting MH in their communities
• Invite national partners to biennial MH
  surveillance meeting at CDC on September 8, 2011
• Identify group to integrate and develop shared
  language, goals, and resources

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Population Health and Prevention

• Recommendations (contd)
• Create online healthy people community that
  includes advice for improving personal and
  community health. Make sure that MH and SA are
  part of this work and that the work in the
  community also includes MH/SA issues.
• Obtain and fund community-level research on
  population-based interventions that have
  evidence, including comparative effectiveness
  work (globally)