New Resource Alert:
Reducing Health Care Costs Through Prevention
Also in this Alert:
- Community Health: A Critical Approach to Addressing Chronic Disease (view more)
- Save the Date: Come celebrate Prevention Institute's 10th! (view more)
- ENACT Local Policy Database Reaches 100! (view more)
- Prevention Is Primary Textbook Sales Soar (view more)
- We're hiring (view more)
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Reducing Health Care Costs through Prevention
Imagine how much money - not to mention lives - California could save with just a 5% reduction in heart disease, gunshot wounds, or asthma. According to a new report by Prevention Institute and The California Endowment, in consultation with The Urban Institute, prevention is the prescription for both physical and fiscal health. Reducing Health Care Costs Through Prevention - developed to inform the California legislature as they consider health care reform - demonstrates the value of prevention for saving health care dollars and presents new and compelling models for looking at prevention investment. Advocates and policymakers will also want to check out the policy recommendations written to ensure that prevention becomes central to any health care reform attempts. Download the report or follow this link for more information on our approach to health care reform.
This report is part of an overall strategy funded by The California Endowment to elevate the discussion on health care reform.
Community Health: A Critical Approach to Addressing Chronic Disease
Reducing health care spending through prevention requires community-oriented policies that strengthen community environments for good health. Written by Prevention Institute and published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's peer-reviewed journal, Preventing Chronic Disease, Community Health: A Critical Approach to Addressing Chronic Disease describes - from a chronic disease perspective - various community determinants of health that such community-oriented policies aim to strengthen. It also highlights a set of recommendations to facilitate the use of community indicator reports by advocates, community members, health departments, and other stakeholders. To read the article, click here.
Save the date!
Please join us on Saturday, October 20, 2007 from 5-8pm for a reception marking 10 years of Prevention Institute. Visit us in our new building and join our staff and Board of Directors in celebrating our 10th anniversary. Separate invitation to follow via e-mail.
ENACT Local Policy Database Reaches 100!
Calling all community advocates, local elected and appointed officials: Local jurisdictions across California are adopting new policies to improve opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity. In July 2006, the Strategic Alliance launched the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT) Local Policy Database to capture examples of innovative and practical solutions to concerns such as unhealthy vending, poor air quality, unsafe streets, blight, and economic under-development. The tool now houses over 100 policies and includes links to hundreds of California coalitions advocating for environmental and policy change. To explore the local policy database and learn about promising policies that change people’s nutrition and activity environments, connect with local groups working on these issues, or share a great policy with us, click here.
Prevention Institute provides staffing for the Strategic Alliance, a coalition of nutrition and physical activity advocates across California...read more
Prevention Is Primary Sales Soar
After just 4 months Prevention Institute's academic text, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Wellbeing, has rounded the 2000 copies sold mark, the fastest rate of sales for a first edition public health text in recent Jossey-Bass history. Please spread the word and consider Prevention Is Primary for your department, classroom, or the prevention leader in you. To preview the text or order a copy through Jossey-Bass, click here.
Prevention Institute is Hiring...read more.
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