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This new brief describes four shifts in the urban planning sector to advance equity and racial justice, steer decisions more directly toward communities’ benefit, respect grassroots power to drive...
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This policy brief reviews evidence of park inequities in the Los Angeles region, lays out a framework for achieving park equity, and sets forth policy recommendations.
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In January 2016, with generous support from the California Community Foundation through its Centinela Valley Medical and Community Fund (hereafter referred to as the Fund), Prevention Institute (PI)...
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This concept paper explores how and why to bring together people working on health equity and racial justice, including understanding the tensions between these two approaches, recognizing shared...
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The Los Angeles region is reimagining its water infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing population in the face of increasingly unreliable water supplies and a changing climate.
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Drawing on interviews with grassroots leaders from across the country, this report explores how the political landscape, funding, staff skills, leadership, and partnerships influence the ability of...
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In this brief, Countering the Production of Health Inequities: Ensuring the Opportunity for Health for All, Prevention Institute analyzes how various sectors such as housing, education, and economic...
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In Healthy Development without Displacement: Realizing the Vision of Healthy Communities for All, we explore: What can people working on “healthy community” issues—like active transportation, parks,...
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This report offers research, analysis, frameworks, and practitioner wisdom to understand the factors in the community environment that support safe relationships and a reduction in domestic violence...
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Welcome to module 7, Good Health Counts: Measurement and Evaluation for Health Equity. Here you will learn about community health indicators and how they can be used to assess and monitor conditions...
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Welcome to Module 6, The Importance of Local Policy for Achieving Equitable Outcomes. In this module, we will look at why policy--at the city and county levels, in particular—is important to health...
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In this module, we will describe The Spectrum of Prevention framework and explore how it can be used to Address Health Equity
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Welcome to Module 3! In this segment we will explore 18 community factors. These 18 factors are linked to health equity. As we’ll soon see, each factor is part of a community and provides tangible...
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Welcome to Module 5: Enhancing Effective Partnerships for Health Equity. Here we will introduce a framework and set of tools for launching and stabilizing effective equity-focused coalitions.
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This brief offers recommendations for advancing health equity through Vision Zero, a growing movement among cities nationally and internationally to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and severe...
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Community prevention and care management strategies can achieve short- and long-term returns
January 26, 2017
Jeremy Cantor and Larissa J. Estes
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Violence is preventable. A growing evidence base, grounded in research and practice, describes the factors that influence the frequency, severity, and likelihood of violence, as well as what it takes...
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This PI-authored article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy’s special issue on Violence and Health: Merging Evidence and Implementation details how comprehensive strategies to improve...
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The Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network convened practitioners, policymakers, and community advocates for a summit on Healthy Land Use for All: Elevating Innovation in Los Angeles and...
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On October 6, 2015, the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network convened practitioners, policymakers, funders and community advocates to discuss Healthy Development Without Displacement....
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Working as a thought-partner with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PI conducted an analysis to determine the sectors and systems to engage for achieving health equity, and pinpointing the actions...
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Prevention Institute facilitates LA's HEALU Network to identify key ‘levers' of opportunity to fundamentally shift land use planning practices so they promote health equity in the first place.
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This first-of-its-kind framework explores trauma at a community level. It explains how trauma is produced not only by experiencing interpersonal violence but also by experiencing structural violence...
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This paper provides a framework for understanding how disparities in health outcomes are produced and how health equity can be achieved, particularly by addressing the determinants of health. It also...
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This document outlines the development of THRIVE (Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments) and the concept of the social determinants of health (SDOH). By analyzing 22 SDOH...
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Decisions about how land is used, by whom, and for what purposes hold immense potential to prevent violence before it occurs, but land use decisions are rarely made with violence prevention in mind....
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A Healthy Future for California is a call to action that outlines key priorities and recommendations that California policymakers can use to create a healthier, safer and more equitable state.
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In 2004, communities in the western unincorporated area of Alameda County (known as the "Eden Area") came together to identify, discuss, and debate the most important issues facing their communities.
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This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guide, developed with help from Prevention Institute, helps public health practitioners advance health equity through community prevention strategies.
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The time is right for the public health and prevention field—including governmental public health and all the others who are engaged in and care about this area—to take a fresh look at what we do and...
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This workbook draws on the experiences and lessons of numerous communities working to advance place-based prevention efforts. It is designed to guide community health practitioners who want to learn...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has heightened the emphasis on workplace wellness as a potent strategy for preventing chronic disease and illness.
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The places where we live, work, learn and play affect our health, but not all communities support healthy outcomes, equally.
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Violence and fear of violence are major factors that undermine health and worsen health disparities, and this fact sheet describes violence and lack of safety as a health equity issue.
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In this article in the international journal Environment & Urbanization, Prevention Institute discusses how community prevention and health equity are global concerns, and outlines prevention-...
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NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis - Prevention explores what will it take to improve the health of all children in Tennessee.
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Read Prevention Institute's comments to the National Prevention and Health Promotion Council on the draft framework for the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy (NPS). Building off of...
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Every decision we make impacts our health--from transit to education to new technology investments-and we must commit as a state to ensuring that every policy and decision we make will better the...
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Developed for The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities sites, this guide provides up-to-date approaches and examples of how to create built environments that support health, equity and...
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The Center for Health Improvement teamed with the Public Health Institute and the Prevention Institute to publish a brief that highlighted key prevention provisions in the 2010 federal health reform...
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Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention...
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Across the country, healthy food and activity leaders have identified violence and the fear of violence as major roadblocks to the success of chronic disease prevention strategies. This PI report...
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The paper outlines organizational practices and public policies to expand access to healthy foods in support of healthy eating and better overall health.
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This chapter in the textbook "The New World of Health Promotion: New Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation," presents a detailed framework for prevention strategies to reduce health and...
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This brief presents a compilation of research and recommendations written by advocates and academics in the fields of transportation, public health and equity.
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This Rapid Response Framing Brief shows how framing can help or hinder people's ability to see the ways environments shape health.
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Prevention Institute and Tony Iton, MD, prepared this report for the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Disparities to identify policy solutions at the community, regional, and state level...
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The objective of this community discussion series is to engage community residents in a dialogue about elements of the social and community environment that can be addressed to enhance quality of...
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This memo, prepared by Prevention Institute and The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, provides background information on prevention as effective strategy for reducing health and safety...
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Prevention Institute in partnership with The California Endowment’s Health Exchange Academy has produced a series of two training modules that present a primary prevention approach to health...
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Summarizes Prevention Institute Founder Larry Cohen's presentation at the February 25, 2009 Disparities Foresight Briefing.
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Illuminates the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities.
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This publication by Prevention Institute and the Health Policy Institute provides recommendations for federal policy and spending in order to substantially reduce health inequities.
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Addresses inequities in health based on a presentation given by Prevention Institute Program Director, Manal Aboelata.
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Summarizes a Grantmakers in Health convening that discussed creating a public will to address health disparities.
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This report focuses on indicators associated with community factors and how indicator reports and report cards can support community efforts to improve health.
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This article explores social determinants of health in the broad context in which communities operate.
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This document provides guidance for fostering the growing momentum around improving nutrition and physical activity environments in socially and economically disadvantaged urban communities.
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Commissioned by the Disparity Reducing Advantages Project (DRA) and the Institute for Alternative Futures, The Imperative of Reducing Health Disparities through Prevention - Challenges Implications...
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Summarizes the THRIVE tool and its demonstrated utility in urban, rural, and suburban settings.
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A Prevention Institute report and tool is featured in this analysis of national efforts to address health disparities and what can be learned from successful social movements.
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Prevention Institute's Larry Cohen is quoted multiple times in this article that appeared in the February 2004 issue of The Nation's Health.
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This document highlights neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities.
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THRIVE was created to answer the question, what can communities do to improve health and safety and promote health equity?
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These files provide slides and audio from a Prevention Institute presentation on reducing health disparities in health and safety.
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This paper, co-authored by Prevention Institute and U.C. Berkeley, highlights major traffic safety needs within specific communities of color, and concludes that ongoing data collection and analysis...
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This report delineates how the resources of diverse governmental and private institutions can be marshaled to work with communities to make significant progress towards eliminating health disparities...
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This paper describes how a community-environmental approach could reduce health disparities in California.
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This paper describes how health disparities can be reduced through systems-based prevention strategies that address the underlying factors influencing health, such as changing the environmental...
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This article - appearing in Minority Health Today - examined the role of prevention in reducing health disparities and improving health outcomes.
