Interventions

The Best Practices Section of the Portal is a searchable list of chronic disease prevention and health promotion interventions which provides program planners and public health practitioners with easy and immediate access to successful public health programs, interventions and policies that have been evaluated and have the potential to be adapted and used.

Featured Interventions

• No Falls! No Fear! Falls Prevention Project

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  This program was a 2-year (1996-1997) health promotion project in Queensland, Australia, targeting healthy seniors living in their communities. The project goal was clearly stated: To reduce the number of falls, and resulting injuries, experienced by older community members, by …

• Community Fitness and Mobility Exercise (FAME) for Older Adults with Chronic Stroke

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  This community-based program aims to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, mobility, leg muscle strength, balance and hip bone mineral density (BMD) in people with stroke. Sessions are one hour, three times per week for 19 weeks.

• Health Promoting Schools at the Kainai Board of Education

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  The Kainai Board of Education and Ever Active Schools are working together to understand how to improve health and wellness among youth in the community. The project has led to daily physical activity opportunities within the high school, community-wide active …