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:
