Strategies What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive. SORT BY A-ZBest MatchNewest VIEW 102550 5 Strategies Some Evidence Mixed Evidence Tobacco Use Ensure sports & recreation safety Improve housing quality Reduce risky sexual behavior Alcohol and Drug Use Community Safety Housing and Transit Income Sexual Activity Clear all Bookmark this strategy Helmets in collision sports Use helmets to absorb, dissipate, and reduce impact forces to an athlete’s head and brain during collisions or falls Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety Bookmark this strategy Mass media and social marketing campaigns to prevent HIV and other STIs Use traditional and digital media to disseminate information about safe sex Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity Bookmark this strategy Multi-component interventions to prevent teen pregnancy Support initiatives that combine multiple components such as education, skills building, and contraceptive promotion to reduce pregnancy among youth Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity Bookmark this strategy Radon mitigation programs Prevent radon from entering occupied buildings and reduce existing indoor air radon levels via soil depressurization, home or room pressurization, heat recovery ventilation, etc. Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Housing and Transit Bookmark this strategy School or community-based abstinence-only education Promote abstinence from sexual activity, generally only with mention of condoms and birth control to highlight failure rates Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy Helmets in collision sports Use helmets to absorb, dissipate, and reduce impact forces to an athlete’s head and brain during collisions or falls Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Community Safety
Bookmark this strategy Mass media and social marketing campaigns to prevent HIV and other STIs Use traditional and digital media to disseminate information about safe sex Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy Multi-component interventions to prevent teen pregnancy Support initiatives that combine multiple components such as education, skills building, and contraceptive promotion to reduce pregnancy among youth Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Sexual Activity
Bookmark this strategy Radon mitigation programs Prevent radon from entering occupied buildings and reduce existing indoor air radon levels via soil depressurization, home or room pressurization, heat recovery ventilation, etc. Evidence Rating: Some Evidence Housing and Transit
Bookmark this strategy School or community-based abstinence-only education Promote abstinence from sexual activity, generally only with mention of condoms and birth control to highlight failure rates Evidence Rating: Mixed Evidence Sexual Activity
