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Prevention Institute Articles

The Community Food Security News (PDF)

Winter 2006

This community food security newsletter, published by The Community Food Security Coalition, published two Prevention Institute authored articles - Cultivating Common Ground between Sustainable Agriculture and Public Health Communities (pp.3) and FoodMed Conference (pp.7) - in its Winter 2006 publication.

RCPs' Role in Primary Smoking Prevention Programs
Published in RT Magazine, this article uses the Spectrum of Prevention as a guide for developing smoking prevention programs and discusses actions that respiratory care practitioners (RCPs) can take to prevent respiratory disease.

Prevention Institute Reports

The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation
Contracted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services (EEHS), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Prevention Institute developed a set of 11 program profiles that highlight neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities. The program profiles are meant to demonstrate how health practitioners, community members and many other stakeholders can work together to improve community well-being by making changes to the built environment.

Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture (PDF)

September 2004

Findings and recommendations to build a collaborative movement for a just, sustainable, health-promoting food system. Link here for the Executive Summary (PDF).

Other Publications Featuring Prevention Institute

Dwelling Disparities: How Poor Housing Leads to Poor Health (PDF)

May 2005

The peer-reviewed journal of the United States' National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), featured The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation in their May 2005 Environews Focus article.

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