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Prevention is primary : strategies for community well-being /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cohen, Larry, 1947 May 21-, Chávez, Vivian, Chehimi, Sana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Oakland, Calif.] : San Francisco : [Washington, D.C.] : Prevention Institute ; Jossey-Bass ; Copublished by American Public Health Association, [2007]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Medicine, Preventive > United States.
Community health services > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Social medicine > United States.
Primary Prevention > organization & administration.
Community Health Services > organization & administration.
Health Policy.
Social Justice.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond brochures : the imperative for primary prevention
  • Achieving health equity and social justice
  • Gender, health, and prevention
  • The hope of prevention : individual, family, and community resilience
  • Community organizing for health and social justice
  • More than a message : framing public health advocacy to change corporate practices
  • Working collaboratively to advance prevention
  • Making change : the power of local communities to foster policy
  • Using media advocacy to influence policy
  • Primary prevention and program evaluation
  • Preventing injustices in environmental health and exposures
  • Health and the built environment : opportunities for prevention
  • Creating healthy food environments and preventing chronic disease
  • Strengthening the collaboration between public health and criminal justice to prevent violence
  • The limits of behavioral interventions for HIV prevention