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.
Learn more about the ranking methodology.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Client-Oriented Screening Interventions: Small Media (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cancer Prevention & Control, Provider-Oriented Screening Interventions: Provider Assessment & Feedback (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults
To promote screening of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers in community and healthcare settings.
Provider assessment and feedback can improve the delivery of recommended cancer screenings in relationship to other elements of the specific health care system.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults
To increase screening for breast cancer
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults, Women
To increase screening for cervical cancers
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Cervical Cancer Prevention & Control, Provider-Oriented Screening Interventions: Provider Reminder & Recall Systems (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer
The goal of incorporating multicomponent interventions for cancer screenings is to increase cervical cancer screenings and pap smears in communities.
Multicomponent interventions that include strategies that reduce and address structural barriers increase cervical cancer screening rates by the largest margins and evidence shows that these interventions are also cost-effective.
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Colorectal Cancer Prevention & Control, Provider-Oriented Screening Interventions: Provider Reminder & Recall Systems (USA)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer
The goal of incorporating multicomponent interventions for cancer screenings is to increase colorectal cancer screenings, colonoscopies, and FOTB in communities.
Multicomponent interventions that include strategies that reduce and address structural barriers increase colorectal cancer screening rates by the largest margins and evidence shows that these interventions are also cost-effective.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Children, Adults
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Children
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer
The goal of this campaign is to increase screening for colon cancer.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Women, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of this intervention was to increase cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese American women.
The Cervical Cancer Control intervention is impactful in increasing the likelihood that women who have a history of at least one pap test receive another pap test in the future.