An integrated framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention / Committee on Valuing Community-Based, Non-Clinical Prevention Programs and Wellness Strategies, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Community-based prevention -- Community-based prevention : more than the sum of its parts -- Existing frameworks -- A framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention.

"Four foundations - the California Endowment, the de Beaumont Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - asked the Institute of Medicine to convene an expert committee to develop a framework for assessing the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies, especially those targeting the prevention of long-term, chronic diseases. The charge to the committee was to define community-based, non-clinical prevention policy and wellness strategies; define the value for community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies; and analyze current frameworks used to assess the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies, including the methodologies and measures used and the short- and long-term impacts of such prevention policy and wellness strategies on health care spending and public health. An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention summarizes the committee's findings"--Publisher's description.