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Publications & Other Resources Related to Health Equity and Racial Justice

  • December 2020

    Four Shifts to Heal Communities: Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice in Land Use Planning and the Built Environment

    This new brief describes four shifts in the urban planning sector to advance equity and racial justice, steer decisions more directly toward communities’ benefit, respect grassroots power to drive...
  • October 2020

    Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building Policy Brief

    This policy brief reviews evidence of park inequities in the Los Angeles region, lays out a framework for achieving park equity, and sets forth policy recommendations.
  • September 2020

    Leaders in Equity to Advance Prevention in the Centinela Valley

    In January 2016, with generous support from the California Community Foundation through its Centinela Valley Medical and Community Fund (hereafter referred to as the Fund), Prevention Institute (PI)...
  • July 2020

    Building Bridges: The Strategic Imperative for Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice

    This concept paper explores how and why to bring together people working on health equity and racial justice, including understanding the tensions between these two approaches, recognizing shared...
  • January 2020

    A Time of Opportunity: Water, Health, and Equity in the Los Angeles Region

    The Los Angeles region is reimagining its water infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing population in the face of increasingly unreliable water supplies and a changing climate. 
  • August 2018

    Partnering for health equity: Grassroots organizations on collaborating with public health agencies

    Drawing on interviews with grassroots leaders from across the country, this report explores how the political landscape, funding, staff skills, leadership, and partnerships influence the ability of...
  • April 2018

    BRIEF: Countering the Production of Health Inequities: Ensuring the Opportunity for Health for All

    In this brief, Countering the Production of Health Inequities: Ensuring the Opportunity for Health for All, Prevention Institute analyzes how various sectors such as housing, education, and economic...
  • August 2017

    Healthy Development Without Displacement: Realizing the Vision of Healthy Communities for All

    In Healthy Development without Displacement: Realizing the Vision of Healthy Communities for All, we explore: What can people working on “healthy community” issues—like active transportation, parks,...
  • July 2017

    A Health Equity and Multisector Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence

    This report offers research, analysis, frameworks, and practitioner wisdom to understand the factors in the community environment that support safe relationships and a reduction in domestic violence...
  • February 2017

    HEPP Module 7 Transcript: Good Health Counts: Measuring and Evaluating for Health Equity

    Welcome to module 7, Good Health Counts: Measurement and Evaluation for Health Equity. Here you will learn about community health indicators and how they can be used to assess and monitor conditions...
  • February 2017

    HEPP Module 6 Transcript: The Importance of Local Policy for Achieving Equitable Outcomes

    Welcome to Module 6, The Importance of Local Policy for Achieving Equitable Outcomes. In this module, we will look at why policy--at the city and county levels, in particular—is important to health...
  • February 2017

    HEPP Module 4 Transcription: The Spectrum of Prevention

    In this module, we will describe The Spectrum of Prevention framework and explore how it can be used to Address Health Equity
  • February 2017

    HEPP Module 3 Transcript: Community Factors & How They Influence Health Equity

    Welcome to Module 3! In this segment we will explore 18 community factors. These 18 factors are linked to health equity. As we’ll soon see, each factor is part of a community and provides tangible...
  • February 2017

    HEPP Module 5 Transcript: Enhancing Effective Partnerships for Health Equity

    Welcome to Module 5: Enhancing Effective Partnerships for Health Equity. Here we will introduce a framework and set of tools for launching and stabilizing effective equity-focused coalitions.
  • January 2017

    Vision Zero: A Health Equity Road Map for Getting to Zero in Every Community

    This brief offers recommendations for advancing health equity through Vision Zero, a growing movement among cities nationally and internationally to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and severe...
  • January 2017

    How to Address High Utilization in Health Care

    Community prevention and care management strategies can achieve short- and long-term returns January 26, 2017 Jeremy Cantor and Larissa J. Estes  
  • January 2017

    Land Use and Violence Prevention Summit Recap

    Violence is preventable. A growing evidence base, grounded in research and practice, describes the factors that influence the frequency, severity, and likelihood of violence, as well as what it takes...
  • October 2016

    Communities are not all created equal: Strategies to prevent violence affecting youth in the United States

    This PI-authored article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy’s special issue on Violence and Health: Merging Evidence and Implementation details how comprehensive strategies to improve...
  • September 2016

    Healthy Land Use for All Elevating Innovation in Los Angeles and Beyond (Summit Recap)

    The Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network convened practitioners, policymakers, and community advocates for a summit on Healthy Land Use for All: Elevating Innovation in Los Angeles and...
  • September 2016

    Healthy Development Without Displacement: Summit Recap Report

    On October 6, 2015, the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network convened practitioners, policymakers, funders and community advocates to discuss Healthy Development Without Displacement....
  • September 2016

    Countering the Production of Health Inequities EXTENDED SUMMARY

    Working as a thought-partner with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PI conducted an analysis to determine the sectors and systems to engage for achieving health equity, and pinpointing the actions...
  • March 2016

    Advancing Healthy, Equitable, and Active Land Use in Los Angeles

    Prevention Institute facilitates LA's HEALU Network to identify key ‘levers' of opportunity to fundamentally shift land use planning practices so they promote health equity in the first place.
  • February 2016

    Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma

    This first-of-its-kind framework explores trauma at a community level. It explains how trauma is produced not only by experiencing interpersonal violence but also by experiencing structural violence...
  • December 2015

    Measuring What Works to Achieve Health Equity: Metrics for the Determinants of Health

    This paper provides a framework for understanding how disparities in health outcomes are produced and how health equity can be achieved, particularly by addressing the determinants of health. It also...
  • November 2015

    Moving from Understanding to Action on Health Equity: Social Determinants of Health Frameworks and THRIVE

    This document outlines the development of THRIVE (Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments) and the concept of the social determinants of health (SDOH). By analyzing 22 SDOH...
  • September 2015

    Community Safety by Design

    Decisions about how land is used, by whom, and for what purposes hold immense potential to prevent violence before it occurs, but land use decisions are rarely made with violence prevention in mind....
  • May 2014

    A Healthy Future for California

    A Healthy Future for California is a call to action that outlines key priorities and recommendations that California policymakers can use to create a healthier, safer and more equitable state.
  • January 2014

    The Community-Driven Eden Area Livability Initiative Summary Reports

    In 2004, communities in the western unincorporated area of Alameda County (known as the "Eden Area") came together to identify, discuss, and debate the most important issues facing their communities.
  • December 2013

    A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity

    This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guide, developed with help from Prevention Institute, helps public health practitioners advance health equity through community prevention strategies.
  • October 2013

    Towards a 21st Century Approach: Advancing a Vision for Prevention and Public Health

    The time is right for the public health and prevention field—including governmental public health and all the others who are engaged in and care about this area—to take a fresh look at what we do and...
  • July 2013

    The Role of Community Culture in Efforts to Create Healthier, Safer, and More Equitable Places: A Community Health Practitioner Workbook

    This workbook draws on the experiences and lessons of numerous communities working to advance place-based prevention efforts. It is designed to guide community health practitioners who want to learn...
  • December 2012

    Health, Equity, and the Bottom Line: Workplace Wellness and California Small Businesses

    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has heightened the emphasis on workplace wellness as a potent strategy for preventing chronic disease and illness.
  • November 2011

    Community Engagement in Design and Planning

    The places where we live, work, learn and play affect our health, but not all communities support healthy outcomes, equally.
  • September 2011

    Fact Sheet: Links Between Violence and Health Equity

    Violence and fear of violence are major factors that undermine health and worsen health disparities, and this fact sheet describes violence and lack of safety as a health equity issue.
  • April 2011

    In the First Place: Community Prevention’s Promise to Advance Health and Equity

    In this article in the international journal Environment & Urbanization, Prevention Institute discusses how community prevention and health equity are global concerns, and outlines prevention-...
  • April 2011

    NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis - Prevention

    NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis - Prevention explores what will it take to improve the health of all children in Tennessee.
  • January 2011

    PI Comments on the Draft Framework for the National Prevention Strategy: Recommendations for Vision, Goals and Strategic Directions

    Read Prevention Institute's comments to the National Prevention and Health Promotion Council on the draft framework for the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy (NPS). Building off of...
  • October 2010

    Our Health is California's Health: Setting the Health Agenda for 2010 & Beyond

    Every decision we make impacts our health--from transit to education to new technology investments-and we must commit as a state to ensuring that every policy and decision we make will better the...
  • October 2010

    Outcome 4: Residents Live in Communities with Health-Promoting Land Use, Transportation, and Community Development

    Developed for The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities sites, this guide provides up-to-date approaches and examples of how to create built environments that support health, equity and...
  • October 2010

    Transforming Health: Integrating Prevention in Reform Efforts

    The Center for Health Improvement teamed with the Public Health Institute and the Prevention Institute to publish a brief that highlighted key prevention provisions in the 2010 federal health reform...
  • September 2010

    Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Wellbeing

    Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention...
  • May 2010

    Addressing the Intersection: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living

    Across the country, healthy food and activity leaders have identified violence and the fear of violence as major roadblocks to the success of chronic disease prevention strategies. This PI report...
  • April 2010

    Recipes for Change: Healthy Food in Every Community

    The paper outlines organizational practices and public policies to expand access to healthy foods in support of healthy eating and better overall health.
  • August 2009

    Toward Health Equity: A Prevention Framework for Reducing Health and Safety Disparities

    This chapter in the textbook "The New World of Health Promotion: New Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation," presents a detailed framework for prevention strategies to reduce health and...
  • July 2009

    The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America

    This brief presents a compilation of research and recommendations written by advocates and academics in the fields of transportation, public health and equity.
  • May 2009

    What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: Making the Case for Environmental Change

    This Rapid Response Framing Brief shows how framing can help or hinder people's ability to see the ways environments shape health.
  • May 2009

    A Time of Opportunity: Local Solutions to Reduce Inequities in Health and Safety

    Prevention Institute and Tony Iton, MD, prepared this report for the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Disparities to identify policy solutions at the community, regional, and state level...
  • May 2009

    Louisville Department of Public Health & Wellness Center for Health Equity: Health Equity Dialogue Facilitator's Guide

    The objective of this community discussion series is to engage community residents in a dialogue about elements of the social and community environment that can be addressed to enhance quality of...
  • March 2009

    Health Equity Memo: Reducing Inequities in Health and Safety through Prevention

    This memo, prepared by Prevention Institute and The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, provides background information on prevention as effective strategy for reducing health and safety...
  • March 2009

    Health Equity Training Series

    Prevention Institute in partnership with The California Endowment’s Health Exchange Academy has produced a series of two training modules that present a primary prevention approach to health...
  • February 2009

    A Disparities Foresight Briefing Health Equity: Focusing on Health in All Policies

    Summarizes Prevention Institute Founder Larry Cohen's presentation at the February 25, 2009 Disparities Foresight Briefing.
  • January 2009

    Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research

    Illuminates the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities.
  • January 2009

    Reducing Inequities in Health and Safety through Prevention

    This publication by Prevention Institute and the Health Policy Institute provides recommendations for federal policy and spending in order to substantially reduce health inequities.
  • January 2008

    Addressing Health Disparities

    Addresses inequities in health based on a presentation given by Prevention Institute Program Director, Manal Aboelata.
  • January 2008

    Creating Public Will to End Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

    Summarizes a Grantmakers in Health convening that discussed creating a public will to address health disparities.
  • November 2007

    Good Health Counts: A 21st Century Approach to Health and Community for California

    This report focuses on indicators associated with community factors and how indicator reports and report cards can support community efforts to improve health.
  • October 2007

    Community Health: A Critical Approach to Addressing Chronic Disease

    This article explores social determinants of health in the broad context in which communities operate.
  • May 2007

    Healthy Eating & Physical Activity: Addressing Inequities in Urban Environments

    This document provides guidance for fostering the growing momentum around improving nutrition and physical activity environments in socially and economically disadvantaged urban communities.
  • April 2007

    Disparity Reducing Advances Project

    Commissioned by the Disparity Reducing Advantages Project (DRA) and the Institute for Alternative Futures, The Imperative of Reducing Health Disparities through Prevention - Challenges Implications...
  • December 2005

    A Community Resilience Approach to Reducing Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Health

    Summarizes the THRIVE tool and its demonstrated utility in urban, rural, and suburban settings.
  • May 2005

    Dwelling Disparities: How Poor Housing Leads to Poor Health

    A Prevention Institute report and tool is featured in this analysis of national efforts to address health disparities and what can be learned from successful social movements.
  • September 2004

    California Plots Strategy to End Health Disparities

    Prevention Institute's Larry Cohen is quoted multiple times in this article that appeared in the February 2004 issue of The Nation's Health.
  • July 2004

    The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation

    This document highlights neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities.
  • November 2003

    THRIVE: Tool for Health & Resilience in Vulnerable Environments

    THRIVE was created to answer the question, what can communities do to improve health and safety and promote health equity?
  • November 2003

    Fostering Community Health: A Preventive Approach to Reducing Disparities in Health and Safety

    These files provide slides and audio from a Prevention Institute presentation on reducing health disparities in health and safety.
  • November 2003

    Traffic Safety in Communities of Color

    This paper, co-authored by Prevention Institute and U.C. Berkeley, highlights major traffic safety needs within specific communities of color, and concludes that ongoing data collection and analysis...
  • September 2003

    Health for All: California’s Strategic Approach to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities

    This report delineates how the resources of diverse governmental and private institutions can be marshaled to work with communities to make significant progress towards eliminating health disparities...
  • July 2003

    Strengthening Communities: A Prevention Framework for Eliminating Health Disparities

    This paper describes how a community-environmental approach could reduce health disparities in California.
  • February 2002

    Eliminating Health Disparities: The Role of Primary Prevention

    This paper describes how health disparities can be reduced through systems-based prevention strategies that address the underlying factors influencing health, such as changing the environmental...
  • March 2000

    Comprehensive Prevention: Improving Health Outcomes through Practice

    This article - appearing in Minority Health Today - examined the role of prevention in reducing health disparities and improving health outcomes.
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