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The Economic Argument for Disease Prevention: Distinguishing Between Value and Savings, February 2009
This policy paper, written by Dr. Steven Woolf and other NCPP members, makes the case that health care spending can best be controlled by shifting investments from expensive low-value services to more cost-effective interventions.

Preventive Care: A National Profile on Use, Disparities, and Health Benefits, August 2007
This report documents the use of clinical preventive services in the United States and highlights racial and ethnic disparities in use. It also estimates that 100,000 lives would be saved annually if use of five services increased substantially.

Data Needed to Assess Use of High-Value Preventive Care: A Brief Report from the National Commission on Prevention Priorities, August 2007
This report describes the data that are needed to assess whether the U.S. population is using high-value clinical preventive services.

Articles

Maciosek MV, Coffield AB, Flottemesch TJ, Edwards NM, Solberg LI. Greater Use Of Preventive Services In U.S. Health Care Could Save Lives At Little Or No Cost. Health Affairs, 29, no. 9 (2010): 1656-1660

Full text of the aforementioned article.

Maciosek MV et al., Prioritizing clinical preventive services: a review and framework with implications for community preventive services. Annu Rev Public Health 2009; 30: 341-355.

Solberg LI, Maciosek MV, Edwards NM. Primary care intervention to reduce alcohol misuse: ranking its health impact and cost effectiveness. Am J Prev Med 2008; 34(2): 143-152.

Maciosek MV, Coffield AB, Edwards NM, Goodman MJ, Flottemesch TJ, Solberg LI. Priorities among effective clinical preventive services: results of a systematic review and analysis. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(1):52-61.

Erratum to the aforementioned article.

Maciosek MV, Edwards NM, Coffield AB, Flottemesch TJ, Nelson WW, Goodman MJ, Rickey DA, Butani AB, Solberg LI. Priorities among effective clinical preventive services: methods. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(1):90-96.

Maciosek MV, Solberg LI, Coffield AB, Edwards NM, Goodman MJ. Colorectal cancer screening: health impact and cost effectiveness. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(1):80-89.

Maciosek MV, Solberg LI, Coffield AB, Edwards NM, Goodman MJ. Influenza vaccination: health impact and cost effectiveness among adults 50+ years of age. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(1):72-79

Solberg LI, Maciosek MV, Edwards NM, Khanchandani HS, Goodman MJ. Repeated tobacco use screening and intervention in clinical practice: health impact and cost effectiveness. Am J Prev Med 2006; 31(1):62-71.

Coffield AB, Maciosek MV, McGinnis JM, Harris JR, Caldwell MB, Teutsch SM, Atkins D, Richland JH, Haddix A. Priorities among recommended clinical preventive services. Am J Prev Med 2001 Jul;21(1):1-9.

Maciosek MV, Coffield AB, McGinnis JM, Harris JR, Caldwell MB, Teutsch SM, Atkins D, Richland JH, Haddix A. Methods for priority-setting among clinical preventive services. Am J Prev Med 2001;21(1):10-19.

Commentaries

Woolf SH. A closer look at the economic argument for disease prevention. JAMA 2009; 301(5): 536-538

The following were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in July 2006

Commentary on Priorities Among Effective Clinical Preventive Services
David Satcher

A Sense of Priorities for the Healthcare Commons
Steven Woolf and Kurt Stange

Prevention - the Cornerstone of Quality Health Care
Samuel Nussbaum

The Top Priority: Building a Better System for Tobacco Cessation Counseling
Tracy Orleans, Steven Woolf, Stephen Rothemich, James S. Marks, and George Isham

Technical Reports

HealthPartners Research Foundation, which conducts the NCPP’s analytical work, created technical reports that document the methods used to estimate clinically preventable burden and cost effectiveness for some high-value services in the rankings.

Methods Technical Report
A detailed report that includes discussion of all study methods.

The following technical reports include details on the literature used and approach taken to estimate each service's health impact and cost effectiveness.

Discuss Daily Aspirin Use

Smoking Cessation Advice and Help to Quit

Alcohol Misuse Screening and Behavioral Counseling

Colorectal Cancer Screening

Hypertension Screening and Treatment

Influenza Immunization

Cervical Cancer Screening

Cholesterol Screening and Treatment (men 35+, women 45+)

Pneumococcal Immunization

Breast Cancer Screening

Cholesterol Screening (men < 35, women < 45 at high risk)

How Can the NCPP's Rankings of Clinical Preventive Services Help You?