Best Practice Approaches and Public Health Actions

Chronic Disease Framework for Action

CDC's Promising Practices in Chronic Disease Prevention and Control – A Public Health Framework for Action (2003) shares a vision of how states and their partners can reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases and their risk factors by instituting comprehensive statewide programs. The framework describes components critical to the success of comprehensive statewide chronic disease prevention programs to include:

• Leadership
• Epidemiology and surveillance
• Partnerships
• State plans
• Targeted intervention in various setting

The ASTDD Best Practices Projects developed a series of Best Practice Approach Reports as resources to build more effective state oral health programs. These best practice approaches support the chronic disease prevention and control framework for action:

• State Mandate for an Oral Health Program
• State-based Oral Health Surveillance System
• State Oral Health Coalitions and Collaborative Partnerships
• State Oral Health Plans and Collaborative Planning
• Community Water Fluoridation
• School-based Dental Sealant Programs