All communities need access to healthy foods and safe places to play and be active—but not all communities enjoy equal access to these vital means of health. We take a systems approach to improving access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity—working across a spectrum of issues, from agriculture, education, land use and transportation, to economic development, industry regulation, and safety. We believe health equity should be the core goal in our national efforts to reduce diet- and activity-related chronic disease, and our work strives to understand how communities experiencing inequities can be best supported in the creation of neighborhoods, cities, and regions that foster health. Through a focus on federal policy, along with state and local research, consultation, and capacity building, we promote cross-sector, equity-focused solutions to promote healthy food and activity environments.
This document discusses health care leaders' broadening awareness to include the need to address the food system as a means to individual, public, and global health, above and beyond basic nutritional factors; explores health care's involvement in policy and advocacy as vital to solve the expanding ecological health crises facing our nation and globe.
Bay Area Dietetics Association interviews Prevention Institute's Managing Director Leslie Mikkelson on Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define Healthful Food.
This Rapid Response Framing Brief shows how framing can help or hinder people's ability to see the ways environments shape health.
Describes how the soft drink industry creates new and effective ways to market their products to keep current customers and attract new ones, and strategies public health advocates can use to counter soda industry marketing and public relations.
This Q&A on fast food marketing offers recommendations for how community members and advocacy groups can work to reduce the negative health impacts of major fast food restaurant chains.
Highlights California community summer nutrition strategies and policy opportunities to increase access to the Summer Food Service Program.
This Rapid Response Framing Brief explains how food and beverage companies are borrowing the symbolism of the environmental movement to cast a favorable "green" light on themselves and their products.
This Rapid Response Framing Brief describes how food and beverage companies are reacting to pressure from public health groups and explores the implications for framing public health's response to those actions.
This brief provides an overview of the deficiency of healthy eating and physical activity promotion in clinical practice and health care settings, with examples and recommendations for changing the focus of clinical practice to prevention.
Using The Strategic Alliance’s Taking Action for A Healthy California priority checklist, this document takes stock of the progress made in creating environments that support nutritious eating and regular physical activity in California, and provides areas where there are continued opportunities for action.
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