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Where's The Fruit? Fruit Content of the Most Highly-Advertised Children's Food and Beverages

This 2007 study, released in conjunction with Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments, examines how the food and beverage industry continues to produce and market unhealthy products aimed at children via aggressive and misleading advertising campaigns. In a key finding, Prevention Institute found that over half of the most aggressively marketed children's foods advertising fruit on the packaging actually contained no fruit ingredients. Where's the Fruit offers a collection of recommendations for the food and beverage industry to support healthy eating. For the one year

Resources from Promoting Connectedness for Trauma and Suicide Prevention: Needs and Opportunities to Address Social Isolation in a Pandemic

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Walk On: Strategies to Promote Walkable Communities

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.

PI's Media Digest: SF pediatricians on school closures, new research on social inequities underlying racial inequities in COVID-19 risk and death

Welcome to our media digest for the week ending December 11, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

Four Shifts to Heal Communities: Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice in Land Use Planning and the Built Environment

This new brief describes four shifts in the urban planning sector to advance equity and racial justice, steer decisions more directly toward communities’ benefit, respect grassroots power to drive solutions, and root out pay-to-play influence in the land use system. While this brief was written with insights from the Los Angeles context, the overall principles are applicable to any community working to address inequities in land use and the built environment.

Addressing and Preventing Trauma at the Community Level

Young people are powerfully affected by the environments they grow up in, and this has implications for preventing violence. In many neighborhoods across the U.S., entire communities experience traumatizing events and conditions. This publication summarizes a conversation between UCSF Professor Howard Pinderhughes and UNITY Project Director Rachel Davis on community-level trauma and what can be done about it. Read other publications in the Making the Case series.

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