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This page highlights the initiatives and results of seven community-wide interventions identified in HI-5 that are working to change the context of health conditions and make healthy choices easier.
Access to Clean Syringes
- Policies that support access to clean needles and syringes allow pharmacies to sell them without prescriptions and/or public health departments to authorize and conduct programs distributing clean needles and syringes and safely disposing of used ones.
- Evidence demonstrates that these policies, laws, and regulations are associated with reductions in the prevalence and incidence of HIV and HCV among persons who inject drugs.
Motorcycle Injury Prevention
- Universal motorcycle helmet laws require all motorcycle riders, both drivers and passengers, to wear a helmet when riding on public roads.
- States with universal laws consistently experience higher rates of helmet use and lower rates of motorcycle-related deaths and injuries.
Multi-component Worksite Obesity Prevention
- Strategies at the workplace include
- Information and education
- Behavioral and social strategies
- Environmental components
- Financial incentives.
- Information and education
- According to the results of a systematic review of a large number of studies
- Worksite obesity prevention programs are associated with reductions in BMI
- Support weight loss among employees.
- Worksite obesity prevention programs are associated with reductions in BMI
Pricing Strategies for Alcohol Products
- Evidence shows that raising the price of alcohol products is associated with reductions in
- alcohol consumption
- related harms, including
- sexual violence
- motor vehicle crashes and fatalities.
- sexual violence
- alcohol consumption
Safe Routes of School (SRTS)
Safe Routes of School (SRTS)
- A comprehensive approach that encourages students and their families to walk, bike, or use other forms of active transportation to commute to and from school.
- Combines programmatic approaches like
- bicycle safety education
- walking school buses
- increased traffic enforcement with infrastructure improvements such as sidewalks, crosswalks, and lighting to ensure safe conditions for walking and biking.
- bicycle safety education
- SRTS is associated with increases in the number of students who walk and bike to and from school.
- SRTS reduces the risk of injury from traffic collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists.
School-based Programs to Increase Physical Activity
- Goal is to increase physical activity during the times children are on school grounds before, during, and after classes.
- Programs can
- Expand and enhance existing physical education programs
- Incorporate physical activities into academic classroom settings.
- Expand and enhance existing physical education programs
- Evidence demonstrates that these programs are associated with
- Increases in student physical activity
- Have positive effects on BMI and obesity prevention.
- Increases in student physical activity
School-Based Violence Prevention
- Universal school-based violence prevention programs provide
- Students and school staff with information about violence
- Change how youth think and feel about violence
- Enhance interpersonal and emotional skills such as
- communication and problem-solving
- empathy
- conflict management.
- communication and problem-solving
- Students and school staff with information about violence
- These approaches are typically delivered to all students in a particular grade or school.
- A systematic review found that universal school-based violence prevention programs were associated with reductions in
- youth violence in all types of school environments, regardless of grade level and socioeconomic status
- crime rate
- predominant race/ethnicity of students.
- youth violence in all types of school environments, regardless of grade level and socioeconomic status
- Evidence shows specific programs have been associated with
- reductions in delinquency, alcohol and substance abuse
- Improvements in academic performance.
- reductions in delinquency, alcohol and substance abuse
Tobacco Control Interventions
- Effective tobacco control interventions include
- tobacco price increases
- high-impact anti-tobacco mass media campaigns
- comprehensive smoke-free laws.
- tobacco price increases
- Evidence has shown a 20 percent increase in the unit price of tobacco can
- reduce the number of young people who started smoking
- increase quitting among young people and adults ages 30 and older
- reduce tobacco use and demand.
- reduce the number of young people who started smoking
High-impact anti-tobacco mass-media campaigns, targeting large audiences through television and radio broadcasts, print media (e.g., newspaper), and digital media to change knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors regarding tobacco, have
- shown to reduce adult tobacco use
- promote tobacco cessation
- prevent tobacco use initiation among youth.
Comprehensive smoke-free laws that prohibit smoking in all indoor areas of workplaces, bars, and restaurants are associated with
- reductions in exposure to secondhand smoke
- improvements in short and long-term health outcomes, including reduced hospitalizations for asthma and heart attacks.