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.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Children's Health, Children, Teens
Goal: The goal of KYB is to teach students the necessary knowledge, attitudes, skills, and experience to practice positive health behaviors and reduce their risk of future illness.
Impact: Studies suggest that the program had a favorable impact on many risk factors, such as systolic and diastolic pressures, HDL cholesterol, ratio of total to HDL cholesterol, fitness (postexercise pulse recovery rate), and smoking.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Diabetes, Urban
Goal: The goal of Let's Beat Diabetes is to prevent new and manage existing cases of Type II Diabetes.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Men
Goal: To educate men over the age of 45 about prostate cancer and to increase prostate cancer screening in order to reduce the incidence of prostate cancer.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Cancer, Adults
Goal: The goal of this mailing is to increase colorectal cancer screening completion rates.
Impact: Colonoscopy screening adherence rates in the intervention group of the trial were higher than the rates in the control group.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Men
Goal: To reduce unprotected anal intercourse between men and decrease the incidence of HIV among gay and bisexual men that have sex with men.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Diabetes
Goal: The goal of the network is to improve care and health outcomes for patients with diabetes.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of Modelo de Intervencion Psicomedica is to reduce high-risk behaviors that can lead to infection and transmission of HIV among intravenous drug users.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Good Idea, Health / Diabetes, Children, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Goal: The goal of this project is to monitor trends in diabetes among Montana's American Indian youth, to evaluate the effectiveness of their diabetes prevention activities, and to identify opportunities to improve care for their patients with diabetes.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes, Children, Teens, Adults, Rural
Goal: The goal of MTO was to impact behavior and lifestyle choices by changing neighborhood environments.
Note: This practice has been Archived.
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Health / Oral Health, Children
Goal: The goal of My Mouth Matters was to raise dental health awareness, improve knowledge, and reduce plaque.