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This two-minute video, created with our Making Connections partners in Los Angeles, provides an overview of the initiative and a glimpse at our collaborators across the U.S.
Please enjoy our two-minute video on the Making Connections for Mental Health Initiative, created by our partners in LA (Community Intelligence and Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles) and RISE Design Lab. Making Connections, funded by Movember and led by Prevention Institute, is designed to improve the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys in the U.S.
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 to accomplish to achieve equitable outcomes. The analysis resulted in Countering the Production of Inequities: A Framework of Emerging Systems to Achieve an Equitable Culture of Health. The framework underscores how historical and current policies and laws, practices and procedures produce inequities in health outcomes to inform a concrete understanding of how to begin to reverse or ameliorate the inequities and support communities in transforming to achieve an equitable culture of health.
We have an opportunity to take transformational steps to improve our health system—from one that emphasizes sick care to one that focuses on keeping people healthy in the first place, and addresses inequities in health and safety.
The opportunity to be healthy is not afforded to everyone in America. As a result, many preventable illnesses occur in higher frequency, earlier, and with greater severity among people living in concentrated poverty and in communities of color. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Prevention Institute analyzed what has contributed to these inequities to determine a pathway forward to produce health equity.
May 9, 2012 The First National Bike to School Day builds upon the momentum achieved through International Walk to School Day, a global event that involves communities from more than 40 countries walking and biking to school on the same day. Click here to register your event and learn more.
Presented by the Center for Science in the Public Interest June 7-8, 2012 Washington, D.C. During the event, researchers, government officials, state and local legislators, health professionals, low-income and minority advocates, youth activists, consumer groups, faith-based organizations, health insurers, and business leaders, will strategize to improve health by reversing the dramatic increase in sugary-drink consumption over the past decades. Learn more here.