HOT OFF THE PRESS: RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The Transportation Prescription: How bold transportation policies can make all communities healthier and stronger

A report by PolicyLink and Prevention Institute, commissioned by the Convergence Partnership, is a policy guide that analyzes the intersection of transportation, health and equity, providing key policy and program recommendations that can improve health outcomes in vulnerable communities, create economic opportunity, and enhance environmental quality. This report also features a foreword by Rep. Jim Oberstar, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and one of the primary authors of the upcoming federal transportation bill.

A Primary Prevention Framework for Substance Abuse and Mental Health

San Mateo County’s Primary Prevention Framework identifies strategies that aim to reduce the number of County residents needing mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) services by promoting policy and organizational practice changes and interdisciplinary partnership.

Transforming Communities to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: A Primary Prevention Approach

This policy brief presents the distilled research and critical thinking of a diverse group of local and national experts in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Via candid dialog and interviews, these leaders developed and prioritized primary prevention strategies, analyzed environmental factors and norms that perpetuate these problems, and outlined policies and practices for transforming our communities and our nation during these turbulent political and economic times.

A Time of Opportunity: Local Solutions to Reduce Inequities in Health and Safety

Prevention Institute prepared this report for the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Disparities to address solutions at the community, regional and state level to reduce inequities in health and safety.  Recommendations in conjunction with successful examples of implementation are made in four key areas including community recommendations, health care recommendations, systems recommendations and overarching recommendations.

UNITY RoadMap: A Framework for Effectiveness and Sustainability

The UNITY RaodMap is a resource for cities to prevent violence before it occurs by mapping out solutions to effectively and sustainably prevent violence. The UNITY RoadMap 1) helps cities understand the current status of their efforts (starting point), 2) describes the core elements necessary to prevent violence before it occurs (milestones), and 3) provides information, resources, and examples to support cities in planning, implementation, and evaluation. As a framework, the UNITY RoadMap is most effective when tailored to the needs of a particular city.

Setting the Record Straight: Nutritionists Define Healthful Food

This sign-on letter puts forth a definition of healthful food that looks beyond nutrients to acknowledge that truly healthful food comes from a food system where food is produced, processed, transported, and marketed in ways that are environmentally sound, sustainable and just.

The Community-Driven Eden Area Livability Initative

This report details the process and lessons learned from engaging community leaders and staff from public agencies in establishing common principles and community priorities and identifying responsive catalyst projects.

Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments

This report covers crosscutting environmental change strategies that were synthesized from a scan of experts around the country.

Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living

This brief focuses on opportunities to support healthy eating and active living through issues related to the built environment.

Partnerships for Preventing Violence Satellite Training Model

Published in the March, 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, this article highlights a training model incorporating in-person leadership development and national skill building in violence prevention. 

Restructuring Government to Address Social Determinants of Health

Highlights options from government officials, community advocates, and researchers for improving our nation’s health. 

Healthy and Active Before 5: Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Obesity in Contra Costa County

This action plan to combat early childhood obesity offers a framework for creating environments in neighborhoods and keys that will motivate and support families to adopt healthy behaviors.

Prevention Saves Money and Lives/Prevention for a Healthier America

A report demonstrating that investing in community-based prevention saves money

Good Health Counts: A 21st Century Approach to Health and Community for California

This report, which synthesizes findings from nearly 100 community reports, broadens the understanding of the impact of factors within social environments on community health.

The Links Between the Neighborhood Food Environment and Childhood Nutrition

This paper identifies key investigations of the neighborhood food environment, examines current improvement efforts and discusses new research and policy priorities.

Community Health: A Critical Approach to Addressing Chronic Disease

Explores social determinants of health in the broad context in which communities operate.

Mapping Profiles

This document summarizes the innovative efforts of 11 organizations advocating for improvements in food and activity environments within predominantly low-income neighborhoods and with African American and Latino residents.

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