Resources

Download the National Prevention Strategy, National Prevention Council Action Plan, fact sheets, and other information.

Contact Us: If you have questions about the National Prevention Council or need additional resources, please contact prevention.council@hhs.gov.

National Prevention Council

• National Prevention Council Action Plan (PDF – 1.50 MB)
• National Prevention Council 2012 Annual Status Report (PDF – 490 KB)
• National Prevention Council 2011 Annual Status Report (PDF - 259 KB)
• National Prevention Council 2010 Annual Status Report (PDF - 84 KB)

National Prevention Strategy

• National Prevention Strategy (PDF – 4.66 MB)
• Read the Strategy section by section
• National Prevention Strategy News Release
• Webcast of Thursday June 16th release event

Fact Sheets

• Fact Sheet: National Prevention Council Action Plan (PDF – 658 KB)
• Fact Sheet: National Prevention Strategy (PDF - 1.04 MB)

Strategic Directions

• Healthy and Safe Community Environments (PDF - 541 KB)
• Clinical and Community Preventive Services (PDF - 552 KB)
• Empowered People (PDF - 540 KB)
• Elimination of Health Disparities (PDF - 537 KB)

Partners Can

• State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Governments (PDF - 549 KB)
• Businesses and Employers (PDF - 629 KB)
• Health Care Systems, Insurers, and Clinicians (PDF - 528 KB)
• Early Learning Centers, Schools, Colleges and Universities (PDF - 523 KB)
• Community, Non-Profit, and Faith-Based Organizations (PDF - 538 KB)
• Individuals and Families (PDF - 536 KB)

Implementation Resources

• County Health Rankings
• State Health Rankings 
• Community Commons 
  Community Commons is an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for the broad-based healthy, sustainable, and livable communities’ movement.

Scientific Resources

These resources were used to validate the evidence base for each recommendation in the National Prevention Strategy.

The Guide to Community Preventive Services 
A free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
The USPSTF is a leading independent panel of non-Federal experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine.

Healthy People 2020
Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) 
The IOM applies the National Academies’ rigorous research process, aimed at providing objective and straightforward answers to difficult questions of national importance.

Prevention Advisory Group

• See recent meeting info and related materials →

Legislation

The Affordable Care Act
Read the full text of the health care law or click on each Title to see a brief outline and then read the law section by section. Section 4001 called for the establishment of the National Prevention Council and subsequently the development of the National Prevention Strategy. Download Section 4001 (PDF - 242 KB).