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In a guest blog from Tanweer Kaleemullah, JD, LLM, MHA/MBA, public health analyst at Harris County Public Health (HCPH), Kaleemullah offers hospitals, clinics, and doctors inspiration and ideas to address social determinants of health. He introduces HCPH’s latest report, Moving Upstream, which provides examples from around the country of how different health practitioners are implementing prevention via activities like “funding housing for patients, hosting farmers’ markets on hospital grounds, screening patients for SDHs and providing interventions, and partnering with legal aid societies to address housing violations reported by patients.”
Welcome to our media digest for the week of April 7, 2017! 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.
Violence prevention is tough with one type of violence in mind, let alone multiple types. Increasingly, violence prevention and public health practitioners are disrupting siloed, issue-specific approaches to create broader solutions that address multiple forms of violence at the same time. But coming together with distinct styles of communication, different community contexts, and multiple voices at the table with diverse priorities requires dedicated, creative thinking and collaboration—it’s challenging!
In March 2017, PreventConnect and CALCASA hosted a webinar facilitated by PI’s Lisa Fujie Parks and Alisha Somji: How Do We Connect the Dots? State and Local Approaches to Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence. Communities are now using the research from Connecting the Dots to bolster protective factors that buffer against violence (like community connectedness and positive social norms) and reduce shared risk factors that increase the likelihood of violence. On March 15, PreventConnect and PI hosted a panel-style web forum during which guests from state-level and local communities told the stories of how the process has unfolded on the ground.
Welcome to our media digest for the week of April 14, 2017! 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.
In the 1970’s, the built environment in the United States was replete with lead, a neurotoxin that damages the brain and nervous system, and is particularly harmful to children. Reducing children’s exposure to lead has been a strong public health accomplishment over the past 20 years, but the presence of lead in the built environment, particularly in low-income communities and communities of color, remains a threat to public health.
