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 document highlights neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities. The profiles demonstrate how health practitioners, community members and many others can work together to improve community well-being by making changes to the built environment.

Read our recommendations for swift action and investments that will improve health and safety for all Californians. In this platform, we propose investments that promote equity, a healthy environment, and healthy people, and make the case that stimulus dollars should lift up communities that need it the most: communities of color and low-income communities with high rates of chronic illness, limited access to healthy food, disproportionately fewer opportunities for physical activity, and unequal access to safe parks, schools, and health resources. Download the document below for our full

This Prevention Institute and PolicyLink document examines the role of prevention and public health investments in furthering the goals of federal health reform.

This brief presents a compilation of research and recommendations written by advocates and academics in the fields of transportation, public health and equity.

Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention practice through a range of social and health issues, including chronic disease, HIV, violence, and mental health.

This document provides guidance for fostering the growing momentum around improving nutrition and physical activity environments in socially and economically disadvantaged urban communities.

This report delineates how the resources of diverse governmental and private institutions can be marshaled to work with communities to make significant progress towards eliminating health disparities in California. It also illuminates the critical pathways that affect health and the key points for intervention to ensure health for all.

This article explores social determinants of health in the broad context in which communities operate.