Population Health and Prevention
Recommendations:
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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
Population Health and Prevention
Recommendations (cont’d):
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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)