"Engaging and well-documented"-- that's Health Affairs' assessment of Prevention Diaries, Larry Cohen's new book by Oxford Press, which makes the case for prevention as essential for public health and social change.
Recent recommendations by a blue-ribbon panel for the White House’s "Cancer Moonshot" initiative mostly focused on diagnosis and treatment. PI’s Larry Cohen penned an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle advocating for prevention to be a bigger part of the approach to ending cancer.
For medical high utilizers, healthcare use and costs are significantly greater than for others in the population. Our report discusses ways that prevention can reduce the need for services currently faced by high utilizers.
Our Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) network in Los Angeles seeks to ensure land is developed equitably. Network members come from a variety of sectors that influence health, including transportation, housing, and parks.
We’re working with 16 sites and the Movember Foundation to improve the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys in the U.S., particularly men and boys of color and veterans, through our Making Connections initiative.
Our guide explains how to use our Collaboration Multiplier tool to work with a dozen sectors and departments to improve safety for young people, communities, and cities.
Our report, co-written with Tony Iton for the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Disparities, identifies how community, regional and state policy solutions reduce health and safety inequities.
We draw upon and incorporate these deeply-held values and strategies in our work: community wisdom; norms that support equity, health, and safety; comprehensive action reflecting the Spectrum of Prevention; taking Two Steps to Prevention to the community determinants of health; multi-sector collaboration; shifting the narrative; local, state, and national policy change; organizational practice change.
Welcome to our media digest for the week of January 13, 2017! 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.
Every day, people working across a wide range of sectors make decisions that shape how land is used, by whom, and for what purposes—and these decisions help determine whether communities will be safe or unsafe.
Welcome to our media digest for the week of January 6, 2017! 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.
