Injuries are not accidents—they are predictable and preventable. Unintentional injuries—including traffic-related injuries, falls, burns, poisonings, and drownings—are responsible for lost lives, decreased quality of life, and substantial healthcare costs. While injuries afflict everyone, people of color and low-income populations are particularly at risk. Comprehensive, integrated, quality strategies prevent unintentional injuries from occurring in the first place, keeping our communities safe and thriving.
Prevention Institute recognizes the link between unintentional injury prevention and physical activity promotion. Manal Aboelata, Managing Director at Prevention Institute, leads workshops to help community residents and leaders articulate barriers and facilitators of healthy, equitable built environments based on their own experience.
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership is a network of more than 300 nonprofit organizations, government agencies, schools, and professionals working together to advance the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) movement in the United States. Prevention Institute participates in monthly steering committee meetings, providing expertise on health equity and injury and violence prevention.
This brief explores the nuts and bolts of planning and Complete Streets policies and includes case studies on rural and urban communities that are making real strides to encourage walking.
Due to the tireless work of a broad based coalition, from 2000 - 2008, the number of lead poisoned children in Monroe County was reduced by 72% from 1,293 to 363. Monroe County is well on the way to becoming one of the first and few communities in the nation to eliminate lead hazard.
In Alameda County, California, The Senior Injury Prevention Partnership (SIPP) promotes a multi-factorial fall-prevention program that includes: physical activity, home safety, education, and medication management. By bringing physical activity programs to seniors (rather than the other way around), SIPP increases the likelihood of participation and helps make the healthy choice the easy choice.
A parent-led walking group serves as the resident task force to the Get Moving Kern coalition and is reversing barriers to healthy eating and safe walking in their rural, predominantly Latino community of Kern County, California.
Prevention Institute chapter, Traffic Injury Prevention: A 21st Century Approach, published in Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research, describes opportunities in the authorization of the federal transportation bill to promote safety for all travelers.
Illuminates the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities.
This brief presents a compilation of research and recommendations written by advocates and academics in the fields of transportation, public health and equity.
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