Partnership for Prevention's pdf download archive of prevention-related tools and resources on the following topics:

• Action Guides
• Clinical Preventive Services
• Cost of Prevention
  
• Implementation Tools
  
• Medicare
• Obesity, Activity and Nutrition
  
• Policy Recommendations
  
• Health Reform
  
• Tobacco Use
  
• Worksite Health

Action Guides

The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to Improve Community Health (2008) — An evidence-based tool developed by Partnership for Prevention and CDC that translates specific recommendations from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) into easy-to-follow implementation guidance. Topics address diabetes management, physical activity, and tobacco-use treatment.

Smoke-Free Policies: Establishing a Smoke-Free Ordinance to Reduce Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in Indoor Worksites and Public Places—An Action Guide (2008) — An evidence-based tool, based on a recommendation from The Guide to Community Preventive Services, that walks public health practitioners through the steps to build support for and establish a community smoke-free ordinance.
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Clinical Preventive Services

Primary Care Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Misuse: Ranking its Health Impact and Cost Effectiveness
Reprint from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Partnership for Prevention has developed materials to assist healthcare professionals in delivering the Welcome to Medicare Visit:

Obesity, Activity and Nutrition

Places for Physical Activity: Facilitating Development of a Community Trail and Promoting Its Use to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth and Adults—An Action Guide (2008) — An evidence-based tool developed by Partnership for Prevention and CDC that provides guidance on how to create opportunities for physical activity by developing a community trail and promoting its use.

School-Based Physical Education: Working with Schools to Increase Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents in Physical Education Classes—An Action Guide (2008) — An evidence-based tool developed by Partnership for Prevention and CDC that provides guidance on how to work with schools to increase physical activity among children and adolescents by enhancing physical education classes.

Social Support for Physical Activity: Establishing a Community-Based Walking Group to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth and Adults—An Action Guide (2008) — An evidence-based tool developed by Partnership for Prevention and CDC that provides guidance on how to increase physical activity by establishing a community-based walking group program.

Straight Talk about Obesity and Health
A fact sheet describing the scope, health impact, and economic impact of the epidemic of overweight and obesity.

Policy Recommendations

A Prevention Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress
Partnership has identified policies for which strong evidence exists that the policy will significantly reduce disease or injury and that can be enacted with a very small (or no) budget impact.  

Health Reform Starts with Prevention 
Recommendations for policy makers to make prevention the cornerstone of America's health system.

Resources:
• Executive Summary:  Real Health Reform Starts with Prevention (December 2008)

• Full Report:  Real Health Reform Starts with Prevention (December 2008)

• Press Release: Partnership for Prevention Offers Health Reform Recommendations to Congress (December 11, 2008)

• Executive Summary: Principles for Prevention-Centered Health Reform (2007)

• Principles for Prevention-Centered Health Reform (2007)

• Prevention policy papers (December 2008):

o The Economic Argument for Disease Prevention: Distinguishing Between Value and Savings, February 2009
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH (Professor of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Corinne G. Husten, MD, MPH (Interim President, Partnership for Prevention)
Lawrence S. Lewin, MBA (Executive Consultant)
James S. Marks, MD, MPH (Senior Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine)
Eduardo J. Sanchez, MD, MPH (Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas)

o Policy Options in Support of High-Value Preventive Care
Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD (Editor, Annals of Family Medicine; Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Sociology and Oncology, Case Western Reserve University)
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH (Professor of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University)

o Designing a High-Quality Package of Preventive Services
Douglas B. Kamerow, MD, MPH (Chief Scientist, RTI International; Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Georgetown University)

o Modernizing Medicare’s Prevention Policies
Douglas B. Kamerow, MD, MPH (Chief Scientist, RTI International; Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Georgetown University)

o Medical Care Reform Requires Public Health Reform: Expanded Role for Public Health Agencies in Improving Health
Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine)
Hugh H. Tilson, MD, DrPH (Professor of Public Health Leadership, University of North Carolina School of Public Health)
Jordan H. Richland, MPH, MPA (Principal Fellow, Partnership for Prevention)

o Children’s Health Reform Agenda: Opportunities for Impact: Preventing Tobacco Use & Childhood Obesity
Joseph W. Thompson, MD, MPH (Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement; Surgeon General for the State of Arkansas)

o Reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Services to Promote Prevention and the Health of Americans
Lawrence S. Lewin, MBA (Executive Consultant)

o Building Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Capacity: A Strategy for Congress and Government Agencies
Brian L. Cole, DrPH (Project Manager, Health Impact Assessment Group, UCLA School of Public Health)
Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine)

o Workplace Health Promotion: Policy Recommendations that Encourage Employers to Support Health Improvement Programs for Their Workers
Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD (Research Professor and Director, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University; Vice President, Consulting and Applied Research, Thomson Reuters)
Enid Chung Roemer, PhD (Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University)
Rivka C. Liss-Levinson, BA (Program Associate, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University)
Daniel K. Samoly, BS (Research Associate, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University)

Tobacco Use

Healthcare Provider Reminder Systems, Provider Education, and Patient Education: Working with Healthcare Delivery Systems to Improve the Delivery of Tobacco-Use Treatment to Patients—An Action Guide (2008) — An evidence-based tool developed by Partnership for Prevention and CDC that provides guidance on how to work with healthcare delivery systems to improve rates of tobacco-use treatment.
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Medicaid Coverage of Tobacco Cessation Counseling and Treatment
Testimony for the Interim Health and Welfare Committee of the Kentucky General Assembly. Delivered by Dr. Steven H. Woolf, Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University on behalf of Partnership for Prevention's National Commission on Prevention Priorities. Dr. Woolf argues that tobacco cessation counseling is more important than anything else doctors do and is a benchmark of health care system quality.