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January 2017
Vision Zero: A Health Equity Road Map for Getting to Zero in Every Community
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... -
October 2013
Walk On: Strategies to Promote Walkable Communities
This brief explores the nuts and bolts of planning and Complete Streets policies and includes case studies on rural and urban communities that are making real strides to encourage walking. -
May 2010
Coalition to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning: Making Lead History in Western New York State - Monroe County, New York
Due to the tireless work of a broad based coalition, from 2000 - 2008, the number of lead poisoned children in Monroe County was reduced by 72% from 1,293 to 363. Monroe County is well on the way to... -
July 2009
The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America
This brief presents a compilation of research and recommendations written by advocates and academics in the fields of transportation, public health and equity. -
May 2009
Senior Injury Prevention Partnership (SIPP): Alameda County, California
In Alameda County, California, The Senior Injury Prevention Partnership (SIPP) promotes a multi-factorial fall-prevention program that includes: physical activity, home safety, education, and... -
January 2009
Traffic Injury Prevention: A 21st Century Approach
Prevention Institute chapter, Traffic Injury Prevention: A 21st Century Approach, published in Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research, describes opportunities in the ... -
January 2009
Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research
Illuminates the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities. -
May 2008
Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living
Though this brief primarily views the built environment through a public health lens, it also describes built environment issues from the perspective of environmental justice, sustainable food... -
January 2008
Get Moving Kern and Greenfield Walking Group: Bakersfield, California
A parent-led walking group serves as the resident task force to the Get Moving Kern coalition and is reversing barriers to healthy eating and safe walking in their rural, predominantly Latino... -
January 2008
Mapping the Movement for Healthy Food and Activity Environments in the United States: Organizational Snapshots
This publication summarizes the efforts of 11 organizations advocating for improvements in food and activity environments within predominantly low-income neighborhoods and with African American and... -
December 2006
Interview with Dinesh Mohan, Renowned Traffic Safety Speaker
An interview with renowned traffic safety speaker Dinesh Mohan. -
August 2005
U.S. Highway Crashes a 'National Epidemic,' New Statistics Show: Seat Belt Use Could Save Thousands More
Prevention Institute's Larry Cohen is quoted multiple times in this article in the August 2005 issue of The Nation's Health on highway safety. -
January 2005
Safe on the Streets: Cars, Safety Belts and Drinking
This traffic safety toolkit - funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - contains information, resources, and a sample presentation to increase awareness and activism about... -
November 2003
Traffic Safety in Communities of Color
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... -
March 2003
What Works in Reducing Impaired Driving
This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that discusses current trends and issues related to impaired driving prevention. -
March 2003
Bridging the Gap: Bringing together Intentional and Unintentional Injury Prevention Efforts to Improve Health and Well Being
This paper delineates how intentional and unintentional injury prevention practitioners can more effectively collaborate to promote safer environments and further reduce incidence of injury. -
October 2002
Seatbelts: Current Issues
This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that provides background on the evolution of seatbelt technology and laws and... -
October 2002
Child Occupant Protection: Current Issues
This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that discusses current trends and issues related to child safety seat technology,... -
April 2002
Aging and Mobility: Current Issues
This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that frames current issues related to traffic safety, mobility, and aging,... -
July 1991
Beyond Brochures: Preventing Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries
This paper describes The Spectrum of Prevention methodology in current practice in the injury field that can be effective at preventing alcohol-related injuries (both "intentional," i.e. violent and...