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We provide tools that drive impactful change and elevate the field of prevention in general.
Prevention Institute's diagnostic scale helps organizations, communities, and collaboratives assess the progress of their prevention efforts and prioritize program elements. This tool can be used as an ongoing resource to help identify strengths and weaknesses of strategy and to increase the scope and effectiveness of prevention work.
The Community-Centered Health Homes model, first presented by Prevention Institute in 2011, provides a concrete framework for healthcare organizations to systematically address the community conditions that impact their patients. It combines years of prevention experience about how to keep people from getting sick or injured, with insight gained from interviewing healthcare organizations around the country who were inspired to improve their patients’ health and the health of the communities around them. We are seeing a rapid transformation in healthcare delivery and there is tremendous
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 – the harm that individuals, families, and communities experience from the economic and social structure; social institutions; and social relations of power, privilege and inequity that inhibit them from meeting their basic needs.
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 delineates a set of metrics that could reflect progress toward achieving health equity.
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