Strategies

Deliver tobacco cessation advice and motivational messages via text or video message

Provide condoms free of charge or at a reduced cost in community and school-based settings

Implement systems that help health professionals support patient tobacco cessation, often with referrals, self-help pamphlets, and pharmacotherapy

Coordinate efforts to reduce risky sexual behavior among adolescents with work, vocational training, or sports

Use websites, computer programs, and other electronic means to provide information, strategies, or behavioral support to tobacco users who want to quit, sometimes with counseling or pharmacotherapy

Use traditional and digital media to disseminate information about safe sex

Use broad media-based efforts to educate large groups of current and potential tobacco users about the dangers of tobacco use

Support initiatives that combine multiple components such as education, skills building, and contraceptive promotion to reduce pregnancy among youth

Support home visits that teach parents about early childhood development and effective parenting strategies, with child development screenings, parental meetings, and links to community resources

Partner with doctors, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals to incorporate literacy support into regular well-child visits, especially in lower income communities