Health promotion and disease prevention are central priorities in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vision. To advance research in these areas, Congress authorized and CDC established a program of university-based Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to explore improved ways of appraising health hazards and to serve as demonstration sites for new and innovative research in public health. Begun in 1986 with three centers, there are now fourteen. In response to a CDC request to evaluate the program, Linking Research and Public Health Practice examines the vision for the prevention research centers program, the projects conducted by the centers, and the management and oversight of the program. In conducting the evaluation, the IOM committee took a broad view of how prevention research can influence the health of communities, and considered both the proximal risk factors for disease prevention and the more distal conditions for health promotion and improved equity in the distribution of risk factors. Month?
Michael A. Stoto, Lawrence W. Green, and Linda A. Bailey, Editors; Committee to Review the CDC Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine
1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 A Vision for the Prevention Research Centers Program; 5 The Research and Demonstration Projects Conducted by the Prevention Research Centers; 6 Management and Oversight of the Prevention Research Centers Program; 7 References; 8 Appendix A Committee Biographies; 9 Appendix B Charge to the Committee; 10 Appendix C Protocol for Site Visits and Telephone Interviews, June 1996; 11 Appendix D The CDC Prevention Research Centers Program; 12 Prevention Research Centers: Investing in the Nations Health, 1986-1996
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, and Families Board on Children, Youth, Steve Olson
Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Division of International Health
Institute of Medicine, Committee to Develop Methods Useful to the Department of Veteran Affairs in Estimating Its Physician Requirements, Joseph Lipscomb
National Research Council, and Families Board on Children, Youth, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV, Marie C. McCormick, Donna A. Almario, Michael A. Stoto
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention Research, Lawrence W. Green, Dean R. Gerstein