Evidence-Based Practices for
Healthiest Wisconsin 2010

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Healthiest Wisconsin 2010:  A Partnership Plan to Improve the Health of the Public is the Wisconsin state health plan for the decade 2000-2010. This plan is the product of a collaborative process that included over 200 partners across Wisconsin.

This Web site was developed by the Department of Health Services (DHS) in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UW PHI) to encourage the use of evidence-based practices in the implementation of Healthiest Wisconsin 2010.

Evidence-based practices are practices whose effectiveness has been confirmed by systematic research or expert consensus. To identify the evidence-based practices outlined on this site, staff from DHS and UW PHI relied on review and meta-analysis articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and findings from expert consensus panels. Public health intervention strategies are listed in the following categories:

• Sufficient Evidence for Effectiveness - Research consistently supports or recommends the intervention.
  
  
• Insufficient Evidence to Determine Effectiveness - Research does not support a firm conclusion about the intervention's effectiveness. Interventions in this category are not ineffective programs. Rather, they have the potential to become evidence-based practices - if properly evaluated.
  
  
• Mixed Evidence - Research yields contradictory results.
  
  
• Sufficient Evidence for Ineffectiveness - Research consistently shows that the intervention is detrimental or has no effect.

Because a number of individuals and bureaus contributed to this effort, readers will notice some variation in content and style. (See list of  contributors.) For contact information for the individual or bureau who wrote intervention pages for each priority, see contacts.

When undertaking community implementation of an evidence-based practice, it is important to assure inclusion of all critical components of the practice. For more information on implementing evidence-based practices, see implementation.  A detailed explanation of the methods used to develop this site is available under research methods.

From the list below, select a priority to see its implementation plan objectives and links to information about evidence-based practices for each objective.

Health Priorities

1. Access to Primary and Preventive Health Services
   
   

2. Adequate and Appropriate Nutrition
   
   

3. Alcohol and Other Substance Use and Addiction
   
   

4. Environmental and Occupational Health Hazards
   
   

5. Existing, Emerging, and Re-Emerging Communicable Diseases
   
   

6. High-Risk Sexual Behavior
   
   

7. Intentional and Unintentional Injuries and Violence
   
   

8. Mental Health and Mental Disorders
   
   

9. Overweight, Obesity, Lack of Physical Activity
   
   

10. Social and Economic Factors that Influence Health
    
    

11. Tobacco Use and Exposure

System Priorities

12. Integrated Electronic Data and Information Systems
    
    
13. Community Health Improvement Processes and Plans
    
    
14. Coordination of State and Local Public Health System Partnerships
    
    
15. Sufficient, Competent Workforce
    
    
16. Equitable, Adequate, and Stable Financing

Last Revised: October 24, 2008