Other Resources

Here is a list of health promotion resources and databases:

• Guide to Community Preventive Services: Federally sponsored website that provides guidance on selecting community-based programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease that are based on systematic reviews of the evidence

• Cancer Control PLANET (Plan, Link, Act, Network with Evidence-based Tools): Web portal designed to provide cancer control practitioners with stepwise access to data and evidence-based resources to assist in planning and implementing evidence-based plans and programs

• Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions: Website designed to bring science-based, community-group, and individual-level HIV prevention interventions to community-based service providers and state and local health departments

• Canadian Best Practice Portal: A virtual front door to community and population health interventions related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion

• Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development provides a registry of evidence-based positive youth development programs designed to promote the health and well-being of children and teens. Blueprints programs are family, school, and community-based and target all levels of need

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Association (SAMSA) - National registry of evidence based programs and practices: Online registry of tested interventions that support mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment

• Research-Tested Interventions Programs (RTIPS): Searchable database of cancer control interventions and program materials, designed to provide program planners and public health practitioners easy access to research-tested materials

Other Resources:

• The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

• The US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

• The Cochrane Collaboration Public Health Group

• Cochrane Reviews

• Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation

• Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Group

• The Campbell Collaboration

• Dissemination and Implementation Research Core at Washington University

• National Implementation Research Network

• Evidence-based synthesis for US Department of Veterans Affairs

• Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR/NIH)   

• RE-AIM 

• D-cubed

• Research to Practice

• AHRQ

• Active Living Research

• Institute for Healthcare Improvement

• Implementation Science Journal

• CA Evidence based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare

• The Community Tool Box

• KTclearinghouse.ca

• CDC Prevention Adolescent and School Health

• Harvard Prevention Research Center

• Research to Reality

• PRC, Washington University

• WHO Implementation Research Guide

• Implementation Network (with Listserv to subscribe to)

• UNC D&I Site

• Society for Implementation Research Collaboration

• Health Evidence

• CTSA

• International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

• Active Implementation Hu

• Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health (2016)