Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Wellbeing

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Georges C. Benjamin

Introduction

Larry Cohen, Vivian Chávez, and Sana Chehimi

SECTION I: DEFINING THE ISSUES

SECTION I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: Beyond Brochures: The Imperative for Primary Prevention

Larry Cohen and Sana Chehimi

CHAPTER 2: Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice

Wayne H. Giles and Leandris Liburd

CHAPTER 3: Gender, Health and Prevention

Michelle Ramirez, Siobhan Maty, and Leslie McBride

CHAPTER 4: The Hope of Prevention: Individual, Family, and Community Resilience

Bonnie Benard

SECTION II: KEY ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE PREVENTION EFFORTS

SECTION II INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 5: Community Organizing for Health and Social Justice

Vivian Chávez, Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein, and Michael Spencer

CHAPTER 6: More than a Message: Framing Public Health Advocacy

Lori Dorfman, Lawrence Wallack, and Katie Woodruff

CHAPTER 7: Working Collaboratively to Advance Prevention

Larry Cohen and Ashby Wolfe

CHAPTER 8: Making Change: The Power of Local Communities Fostering Policy

Makani Themba-Nixon

CHAPTER 9: Using Media Advocacy to Influence Policy

Lori Dorfman

CHAPTER 10: Primary Prevention and Program Evaluation

Dan Perales

SECTION III: PREVENTION IN CONTEXT

SECTION III INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 11: Preventing Injustices in Environmental Health and Exposures

Stephanie Farquhar, Neha Patel, and Molly Chidsey

CHAPTER 12: Health and the Built Environment: Opportunities for Prevention

Howard Frumkin and Andrew L. Dannenberg

CHAPTER 13: Creating Healthy Food Environments, Preventing Chronic Disease

Leslie Mikkelsen, Catherine S. Erickson, and Marion Nestle

CHAPTER 14: Strengthening the Collaboration between Public Health and Criminal Justice to Prevent Violence

Deborah Prothrow-Stith

CHAPTER 15: The Limits of Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention

Dan Wohlfeiler and Jonathan M. Ellen

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