Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being Paperback – September 7, 2010
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At a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for public health, Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. Written in accessible and understandable language, this comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury in the first place.
Prevention Is Primary, written by associates of the nationally renowned Prevention Institute, is a theory-to-practice book for students, faculty practitioners, and community leaders who want to take a proactive stance against the most pressing health problems in the community, including asthma, tobacco, violence, HIV, poor nutrition and physical inactivity, health disparities, and environmental injustice. The volume provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of prevention on a community level. The authors define the elements of comprehensive, quality prevention efforts—from the necessary partnerships that need to be developed to the training, vision, and policies that go into successful efforts.
Leaders in the field of prevention contributed to this volume. They offer step-by-step approaches to action in community organizing, fostering resilience, media advocacy, food security, working within diversity, the built environment, environmental justice, and evaluating prevention efforts. Prevention Is Primary contains illustrative case studies of community involvement around these and other contemporary issues including:
- Health equity and social justice
Personal and community resilience
Coalition building
Chronic disease prevention
HIV intervention beyond behavior change
Gender, health, and prevention
Public health advocacy
The power of local communities
Public health and criminal justice
Designed to be user friendly, each chapter in the book contains sidebars that put the chapter in context by including information about heroic prevention leaders and groundbreaking prevention successes. The sidebars underscore the application of prevention principles by a variety of professionals and disciplines in a wide range of health and human service settings.
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About the Author
Larry Cohen, MSW, is the founder and executive director of the Prevention Institute, Oakland, California.
Vivian Chavez, DrPH, MSW, is an associate professor in the department of health education at San Francisco State University.
Sana Chehimi, MPH, is program manager at the Prevention Institute.
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- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 2 edition (September 7, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470550953
- ISBN-13: 978-0470550953
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
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Acknowledgments.
Foreword (Georges C. Benjamin).
The Contributors.
Introduction (Larry Cohen, Vivian Chávez and Sana Chehimi).
Part One: Defining the Issues.
1 The Imperative for Primary Prevention (Larry Cohen and Sana Chehimi).
2 Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice (Wayne H. Giles and Leandris C. Liburd).
Sidebar: Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk, Bonnie Lefkowitz and Barbara Krimgold.
3 Individual, Family, and Community Resilience (Bonnie Benard).
Part Two: Key Elements of Effective Prevention Efforts.
4 Community Organizing for Health and Social Justice (Vivian Chávez, Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein and Michael S. Spencer).
5 Working Collaboratively to Advance Prevention (Larry Cohen and Ashby Wolfe).
Sidebars: Deborah Balfanz, Soowon Kim and Ellen Wu.
6 The Power of Local Communities to Foster Policy (Makani Themba-Nixon).
7 Using Media Advocacy to Influence Policy (Lori Dorfman).
8 The Impact of Corporate Practices on Health and Health Policy (Nicholas Freudenberg and Sandro Galea).
9 Primary Prevention and Program Evaluation (Daniel Perales).
Part Three: Prevention in Context.
10 Preventing Injustices in Environmental Health and Exposures (Stephanie Ann Farquhar, Neha Patel and Molly Chidsey).
Sidebars: Nancy M. Goff and Peter Murchie.
11 Health and the Built Environment (Howard Frumkin and Andrew L. Dannenberg).
12 Creating Healthy Food Environments to Prevent Chronic Disease
(Leslie Mikkelsen, Catherine S. Erickson, Juliet Sims and Marion Nestle).
13 A Public Health Approach to Preventing Violence (Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Rachel A. Davis).
Sidebar: Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah, Mysha R. Wynn and Donald Parker.
14 The Limits of Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention (Dan Wohlfeiler and Jonathan M. Ellen).
15 Mental Health in the Realm of Primary Prevention (Anita M. Wells, GiShawn A. Mance and M. Taqi Tirmazi).
Sidebar: Joseph P. Gone.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
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