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Welcome to our media digest for the week ending September 6, 2019! 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.
Welcome to our media digest for the week ending August 30, 2019! 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.
PI's Deputy Executive Director Manal J. Aboelata and Thomas Yee, Initiative Officer of the Low Income Investment Fund, share findings from their new report, Shared Implementation for Equitable Infrastructure, on how to equitably distribute recent investments in LA County's housing, transportation, parks, and water infrastructure to benefit communities that need these investments the most. This blog was originally posted on LA THRIVES.
Welcome to our media digest for the week ending September 13, 2019! 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.
The East San Jose PEACE (Prevention Efforts Advance Community Equity) Partnership is a group of residents and organizations working together to build a healthy, peaceful, and empowered community in East San Jose. We’re using our community’s strengths—community pride, diversity, creativity, and a rich history of community activism, among others—to counteract the conditions that have led to a high level of community violence and trauma in East San Jose. Will you join us? Learn more at esjpeace.org.
Prevention Institute’s Leslie Mikkelsen, Sandra Viera, Katie Miller, and Rea Pañares discuss how healthcare organizations are collaborating with community organizations to address social determinants of health and improve health and equity. They talk about challenges of the work and highlight successes from the field. To learn more about PI’s health system transformation work, visit: preventioninstitute.org/focus-areas/h…ransformation *Photo credit: Heart of Texas Community Healthcare System
The places where we live, work, learn and play affect our health, but not all communities support healthy outcomes, equally. Decisions about the built environment - such as land use, zoning, and community design - have implications for neighborhood access to healthy food, safe places for physical activity and resident experiences of real and perceived violence. In the book Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (edited by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson), chapter contributors Manal J. Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu, Larry