Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being
Prevention is PRIMARYAt a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for public health,Prevention Is Primaryprovides 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 justicePersonal and community resilienceCoalition buildingChronic disease preventionHIV intervention beyond behavior changeGender, health, and preventionPublic health advocacyThe power of local communitiesPublic health and criminal justiceDesigned 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.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.