BE A BRIDGE Central Regional Summit
"Dialogue on Dispareties: Addressing Tobacco-Related Chronic Disease"
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Nittany Lion Inn ~ State College, PA

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) serves as a filter for scientific literature on specific health problems that can be large, inconsistent, uneven in quality, and even inaccessible. The Community Guide summarizes what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease.

The Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. portal provides access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs.

The Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. portal provides access to Web-based resources that can assist in:

• Assessing the cancer and/or risk factor burden within a given state.
• Identifying potential partner organizations that may already be working with high-risk populations.
• Understanding the current research findings and recommendations.
• Accessing and downloading evidence-based programs and products.
• Finding guidelines for planning and evaluation.

This resource from the New York Medical College provides articles and information from the “Health Literacy: Tools for Improving Health Communications” conference held in May 2007.The site links to the tools presented at the event to help practitioners of all types communicate with client, patients, and community members. Resources include a health literacy assessment tool and links to sites with printable brochures and practical tips.Â

This database contains projects and interventions provided by members of the public health community.

Because many visitors to RWJF.org seek out information about tobacco, we'll brought together all of our research and publications in a single place. The Tobacco Popular Topic section of RWJF.org gathers in one place what we’ve learned about reducing tobacco use and exposure

A companion publication of the evaluation handbook focuses on the development and use of the program logic model provides and orientation to the fundamental principles and language of the program logic model so it can be effectively used in program planning, implementation and dissemination of results.

A pocket guide developed to help health care providers better assess, diagnose and treat cancer patients of various cultural backgrounds

Paper summarizes and analyzes current thinking about how to define and address health diparities and provides a platform from which better policy analysis, palnning and action can impact the problem.

Article highlights a model to address the elimination of population disparities - a model that focuses on community as the cirtical unit of analysis and action to achieve success