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Prevention Institute Blog

  • The economy we need centers community health & racial justice

    February 8, 2022

    As we begin 2022, it’s clear that the inequitable impacts of climate change, the pandemic, and racial injustice share common roots: existing systems that accept as a cost of doing business the oppression, exploitation, and degradation of BIPOC communities to enrich the few. They also share a structural solution: adopting a community health-based economy. Our vision is that we can replace a carbon-based economy with an economy that is sustainable for people, communities, and the planet.

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  • How Community Organizations and Health Departments Can Partner to Advance Health Justice

    October 19, 2021

    Health justice is not just a cause or an idea, but the way forward for public health agencies and communities alike.

    This blog was originally published in Bill of Health.

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  • PI's Media Digest: The true cost of the US food system; overdose deaths increase sharply

    July 16, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending July 16, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • PI's Media Digest: Climate change and heat health risks; preventing violence by addressing trauma; opioid overdoses spike

    July 9, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending July 9, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • PI's Media Digest: Native communities face further displacement with climate change; tree cover and income inequality

    July 2, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending July 2, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • PI's Media Digest: Risks of rising heat and humidity; CDC extends eviction moratorium for one month

    June 25, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 25, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • PI's Media Digest: Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday; states restrict access to food assistance; ACA survives another challenge

    June 18, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 18, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • Media digest: CA assault weapons ban overturned -- and appealed

    June 11, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 11, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • Media digest: Texas cracks down on local efforts to redirect funding away from law enforcement, drought grips Western US

    June 4, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 4, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • PI's Media Digest: DC to divert some 9-11 calls to unarmed first responders; America after Roe v Wade

    May 21, 2021

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending May 21, 2021! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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