| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xxxi, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The imperative for primary prevention / Larry Cohen, Sana Chehimi -- Achieving health equity and social justice / Wayne H. Giles, Leandris C. Liburd -- Individual, family, and community resilience / Bonnie Benard -- Community organizing for health and social justice / Vivian Chavez, Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein, Michael S. Spencer -- Working collaboratively to advance prevention / Larry Cohen, Ashby Wolfe -- The power of local communities to foster policy / Makani Themba-Nixon -- Using media advocacy to influence policy / Lori Dorfman -- The impact of corporate practices on health and health policy / Nicholas Freudenberg, Sandro Galea -- Primary prevention and evaluation / Daniel Perales -- Preventing injustices in environmental health and exposures / Stephanie Ann Farquhar, Neha Patel, Molly Chidsey -- Health and the built environment / Howard Frumkin, Andrew L. Dannenberg -- Creating healthy food environments to prevent chronic disease / Leslie Mikkelsen, Catherine S. Erickson, Juliet Sims, Marion Nestle -- A public health approach to preventing violence / Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Rachel A. Davis -- The limits of behavioral interventions for HIV prevention / Dan Wohlfeiler, Jonathan M. Ellen -- Mental health in the realm of primary prevention / Anita M. Wells, GiShawn A. Mance, M. Taqi Tirmazi. |
| Summary |
"Since the first edition of Prevention is Primary was published in 2007, the notion of prevention has gained greater prominence on a national level. This updated second edition includes advances in the field of prevention while contextualizing the practice of prevention in the current economic and healthcare climate. Stronger links are made throughout the text of the connection between various topics for example, links between violence prevention and physical activity promotion. The new edition also contains a real-world examples and application of key concepts and offers an online instructors manual"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Medicine, Preventive -- United States.
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Community health services -- United States.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Social medicine -- United States.
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Primary Prevention -- organization & administration -- United States. |
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Community Health Services -- organization & administration -- United States. |
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Health Policy -- United States. |
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Social Justice -- United States. |
| Added Author |
Cohen, Larry, 1947 May 21-
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Chavez, Vivian.
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Chehimi, Sana.
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| ISBN |
9780470550953 (pbk.) |
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0470550953 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101532760 |
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AU@ 000045747394 |
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