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.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
The goal of NICHE is to achieve systematic nursing change that will benefit hospitalized older patients. The vision of NICHE is for all patients 65 and over to be given sensitive and exemplary care. The mission of NICHE is to import principles and tools to stimulate a change in the culture of healthcare facilities to achieve patient-centered care for older adults.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
The goal of this common sense cooperation is to provide a new measure of safety to millions of Americans by implementing prevention programs where legislation or regulation does not exist. The preventative measures are based around optimizing treatment plant performance and thus increasing protection against microbial contamination in America's drinking water supply.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Diabetes, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Programa de Manejo Personal de la Diabetes is a group workshop that educates Latino individuals with type 2 diabetes on techniques to help them manage their disease and live more active lives.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Heart Disease & Stroke, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of this program is to improve the health of the Cambodian population in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Urban
The goal of the "walking school bus" is to increase children's rates of active commuting to school and physical activity.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Rural
The goal of the WATCH project is to improve diet and colorectal cancer screening rates among African American adults.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults
This project seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of both providing the intervention and recruiting participants in a community setting.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Adults
To decrease total and saturated fat intake, serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and body weight.
The dietitian-delivered intervention effectively improved the care of patients with hyperlipidemia.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Health Care Access & Quality, Urban
Access to Care aims to meet primary health care needs of low-income uninsured individuals.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Physical Activity, Teens, Adults, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of the Baltimore Healthy Carryout project was to increase healthy food options at carryout facilities and restaurants in Baltimore's low-income neighborhoods.
The BHC project reached 36.8% more customers during the intervention period than at baseline when comparing intervention carryouts to comparison carryouts. Customers reported purchasing specific foods due to the presence of a photo on the menu board (65.3%) or menu labeling (42.6%).