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On May Day, I had the honor and privilege of attending ENACT Day, a unique opportunity to bring our passion for change to Sacramento and tell legislators that investing in health, equity, and safety in every community benefits all Californians.
Tobacco control efforts represent some of the public health field’s most effective prevention efforts. Policy changes such as tax increases and restricting smoking in public spaces and work places has shifted norms around tobacco use and saved many lives, while reducing costs associated with medical treatment for tobacco-related illness. Prevention Institute staff and leadership have not only played important roles in these efforts — from passing cutting-edge smoke-free policies at the local level in communities throughout the U.S. to waging international tobacco control communications and policy advocacy programs — but also regularly apply the lessons learned through tobacco prevention to other pressing public health problems.
This paper delineates the accomplishments of a state interdisciplinary partnership to support local violence prevention efforts.
Welcome to our media digest for the week of June 9, 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.