This PI-authored article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy’s special issue on Violence and Health: Merging Evidence and Implementation details how comprehensive strategies to improve community conditions can reduce violence and promote health equity. It describes how PI tools and frameworks, used by our Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY) cities, can be adapted for international application in multi-sector collaboration, influencing policy and legislation, and strengthening local violence prevention efforts.

This report offers research, analysis, frameworks, and practitioner wisdom to understand the factors in the community environment that support safe relationships and a reduction in domestic violence (DV). It identifies opportunities for 13 sectors to engage in DV prevention, and offers a method for multiple sectors to identify joint strengths, strategies, and outcomes. The paper presents an overarching approach to advancing a health equity and multisector approach to DV prevention, and identifies broad elements and immediate next steps to move this approach forward.

This fact sheet provides a snapshot of our recently published paper, Disrupting the Pathway – A Prevention Approach to Medical High Utilization. Disrupting the Pathway describes an exploratory methodology for addressing high utilization by applying a community-wide prevention lens. The rich body of prevention research, practice, and experience supports the notion that this approach can add value to existing efforts being undertaken by the healthcare system. Prevention can reduce the pipeline to high utilization, support the maintenance and restoration of health and wellbeing, and improve the

The paper outlines organizational practices and public policies to expand access to healthy foods in support of healthy eating and better overall health.

Proponents of community health are constantly being asked to make the case, for example, for increasing access to safe parks, improving air quality, or creating a community program to prevent violence. Our Prevention Playing Cards include frameworks, images, and quotes to help increase your understanding of prevention, community health, and health equity—and prepare you to articulate a primary prevention approach when talking with friends and coworkers, or presenting to community leaders and policy makers. This is a full set of standard playing cards. . Get started using the cards Download the

This chapter in the textbook "The New World of Health Promotion: New Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation," presents a detailed framework for prevention strategies to reduce health and safety inequities.

Prevention Institute's Founder Larry Cohen chronicles the history of anti-smoking efforts, and how he helped guide a new approach that has resulted in policy and legislative changes. See how prevention efforts, like banning smoking in public places, promoting healthy eating and preventing violence, can result in healthier, happier communities.

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.

Prevention Institute in partnership with The California Endowment’s Health Exchange Academy has produced a series of two training modules that present a primary prevention approach to health disparities.