

Public Health Standard
The Public Health Standard spans all forms of public health programming, including social determinants of health, patient advocacy, domestic violence, mental health, reproductive health, substance abuse and prevention and obesity. It covers a broad range of outcomes related to population health interventions, including promoting healthy behaviors, disease prevention and management and community health. It is organized by outcomes or desired social changes. This Genome also connects social determinants of health such as employment, education, hunger and housing to health outcomes.
Impact Taxonomies

Outcomes
Universal program goals (what the program is trying to achieve)

Program Features
Universal program design elements or mechanisms (what the program does)

Beneficiaries
Universal demographic types or program beneficiaries (who the program serves)

Context
Universal environmental conditions or variables (where the program operates)

Implementation
Universal measurement of dosage and fidelity to the intervention model (how the program operates)
Outcomes
Access to Preventative Healthcare
Health Empowerment
Healthcare Utilization
Health Literacy & Knowledge
Patient Adherence
Improved Mental Well-Being
Reduce Stigma
Manage Mental Health
Access to Services and Supports
Healthy Relationships
Identify and Refer Survivors
Reduce Domestic Violence Recurrence
Survivor Well-Being, Independence, and Financial Empowerment
Reduce Perpetrator Recidivism
Reduce Obesity
Physical Fitness
Healthy Food Consumption and Behavior
Sexual Health Empowerment
Reduce Unwanted Teen Pregnancy
Reduce Incidence of STIs and STDs
Maternal Health
Infant Health
Patient Quality of Life
Reduce Substance Abuse
Reduce Behavioural Addictions
Prevent Substance Abuse

Program Overview
The Impact Genome's Verified Impact Standard is the world's leading standard for verifying the outcomes of social programs. To date, the world has not had a common definition of what it means to achieve an outcome - every social program currently adopts its own metrics. Our Impact Standards have been peer-reviewed, evidence-based and reported against by thousands of social programs. The Standards enable any program to report their outcomes in a standardized way, including beneficiaries served, context, program design and implementation. Program claims are backed up by evidence and independently verified by the Impact Genome Registry.
Our Methodology
Our peer-reviewed Verified Impact Standards were developed though a rigorous, evidence-based process. To learn more about it, see our methodology paper here.