Cover graphic: Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well-Being
Table of Contents

Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well-Being

List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibit

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Georges C. Benjamin

The Contributors

Introduction
Larry Cohen, Vivian Chávez, Sana Chehimi

Part One: Defining the Issues
  1. Beyond Brochures: The Imperative for Primary Prevention - Larry Cohen, Sana Chehimi

  2. Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice - Wayne H. Giles, Leandris C. Liburd

  3. Gender, Health, and Prevention - Michelle Ramirez, Siobhan Maty, Leslie McBride

  4. The Hope of Prevention: Individual, Family, and Community Resilience - Bonnie Benard

Part Two: Key Elements of Effective Prevention Efforts
  1. Community Organizing for Health and Social Justice - Vivian Chávez, Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein, Michael S. Spencer

  2. More Than a Message: Framing Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices - Lori Dorfman, Lawrence Wallack, Katie Woodruff

  3. Working Collaboratively to Advance Prevention - Larry Cohen, Ashby Wolfe

  4. Making Change: The Power of Local Communities to Foster Policy - Makani Themba-Nixon

  5. Using Media Advocacy to Influence Policy - Lori Dorfman

  6. Primary Prevention and Program Evaluation - Daniel Perales

Part Three: Prevention in Context
  1. Preventing Injustices in Environmental Health and Exposures - Stephanie Ann Farquhar, Neha Patel, Molly Chidsey

  2. Health and the Built Environment: Opportunities for Prevention - Howard Frumkin, Andrew L. Dannenberg

  3. Creating Healthy Food Environments and Preventing Chronic Disease - Leslie Mikkelsen, Catherine S. Erickson, Marion Nestle

  4. Strengthening the Collaboration Between Public Health and Criminal Justice to Prevent Violence - Deborah Prothrow-Stith

  5. The Limits of Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention - Dan Wohlfeiler, Jonathan M. Ellen

Name Index

Subject Index