Health promotion and disease prevention are central priorities in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vision. To advance research in these areas, Congress authorized and CDC established a program of university-based Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to explore improved ways of appraising health hazards and to serve as demonstration sites for new and innovative research in public health. Begun in 1986 with three centers, there are now fourteen. In response to a CDC request to evaluate the program, Linking Research and Public Health Practice examines the vision for the prevention research centers program, the projects conducted by the centers, and the management and oversight of the program. In conducting the evaluation, the IOM committee took a broad view of how prevention research can influence the health of communities, and considered both the proximal risk factors for disease prevention and the more distal conditions for health promotion and improved equity in the distribution of risk factors. Month?

Table of Contents


Front Matter
Executive Summary
Introduction
A Vision for the Prevention Research Centers Program
The Research and Demonstration Projects Conducted by the Prevention Research Centers
Management and Oversight of the Prevention Research Centers Program
References
Appendix A Committee Biographies
Appendix B Charge to the Committee
Appendix C Protocol for Site Visits and Telephone Interviews, June 1996
Appendix D The CDC Prevention Research Centers Program
Prevention Research Centers: Investing in the Nations Health, 1986-1996