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.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Housing & Homes, Adults, Families, Urban
InnVision's mission is to empower homeless and at-risk families and individuals in finding a permanent home by offering various levels of housing and day programs in a safe and supportive environment that promotes self-worth and independent living.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Alcohol & Drug Use, Teens, Families
This program is designed to improve parent-child communication skills as a way of improving and maintaining healthy decision-making.
Transcendental Meditation Stress Reduction Intervention for Congestive Heart Failure (Philadelphia, PA)
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of the intervention is to use meditation to improve health and reduce the risk of heart failure among older African Americans with congestive heart failure.
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Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults, Older Adults
The goal of this program is to provide risk factor management training and services to individuals with cardiovascular disease.
Intervention participants had significantly fewer cardiovascular events than patients who received usual care (4.1% vs. 15.7%, p = 0.053). Reduced hospitalization and emergency room expenses resulted in a gross cost savings of $1,418 per patient.
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Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Men
To educate men over the age of 45 about prostate cancer and to increase prostate cancer screening in order to reduce the incidence of prostate cancer.
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Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Oral Health, Older Adults
The goal of this educational program was to improve the quality of oral health care nursing home residents received from their caregivers.
This study shows that oral health care education can improve caregivers' knowledge, attitudes and oral health care delivery for elderly clients.
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Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children
To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease by reducing risk factors among children.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Rural
The goal of this program is to increase the availability of cancer trials and increase patient enrollment in cancer trials in an underserved rural community in Maryland.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Client-Oriented Screening Interventions: Group Education (USA)
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Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Adults, Women
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of group education in increasing screening for cervical cancer based on the small number of studies with methodologic limitations and inconsistent findings.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Client-Oriented Screening Interventions: Group Education (USA)
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Cancer, Adults
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of group education in increasing screening for colorectal cancer, based on the small number of studies with methodologic limitations and inconsistent findings.