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Promising Practices

The Promising Practices database informs professionals and community members about documented approaches to improving community health and quality of life.

The ultimate goal is to support the systematic adoption, implementation, and evaluation of successful programs, practices, and policy changes. The database provides carefully reviewed, documented, and ranked practices that range from good ideas to evidence-based practices.
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Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air

Goal: The goal is for cities or companies to reduce their carbon footprint. For example, research shows that buying 100 percent green power is the most significant step the City of Bellingham can take to protect the climate; it would eliminating more than 65 percent of the global warming pollution caused by municipal operations.

Filed under Good Idea, Community / Civic Engagement

Goal: The program's mission is to bring community members together to provide food for the hungry by promoting sustainable use of excess resources.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality

Goal: The goal of Health Leads is to provide patients with access to various things, besides medication, that they need to improve their health.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Physical Activity, Families, Rural

Goal: Healthy Homes/Healthy Families aims to help rural residents of Southwest Georgia make healthy behavior changes.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Urban

Goal: The goal of Healthy San Francisco is to make health care services accessible to San Francisco's uninsured population.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults

Goal: The goal of the Heart to Heart program is to reduce risk factors of cardiovascular disease.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Adults

Goal: The goal of Heartbeat Wales was to reduce behavioral risks for cardiovascular disease.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Goal: The goal of Project HEED is to lessen the incidence of diabetes in ethnic minority communities through peer-led educational interventions focusing on weight loss.

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Built Environment, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban

Goal: To increase physical activity among residents of the in the High Point Seattle public housing area through improvement in the built environment.

Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Public Safety, Adults

Goal: The goal of the Ignition Interlock program is to reduce drunk driving among alcohol traffic offenders.

Michigan Health Improvement Alliance