Prevention Is Primary (eBook)

Larry Cohen, MSW, is the founder and executive director of the Prevention Institute, Oakland, California. Vivian Chavez, DrPH, MSW, is an associate professor in the department of health education at San Francisco State University. Sana Chehimi, MPH, is program manager at the Prevention Institute.

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits.

Acknowledgments.

Foreword (Georges C. Benjamin).

The Contributors.

Introduction (Larry Cohen, Vivian Chávez and Sana
Chehimi).

Part One: Defining the Issues.

1 The Imperative for Primary Prevention (Larry Cohen and Sana
Chehimi).

2 Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice (Wayne H. Giles and
Leandris C. Liburd).

Sidebar: Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nancy McArdle, Theresa L.
Osypuk, Bonnie Lefkowitz and Barbara Krimgold.

3 Individual, Family, and Community Resilience (Bonnie
Benard).

Part Two: Key Elements of Effective Prevention
Efforts.

4 Community Organizing for Health and Social Justice (Vivian
Chávez, Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein and Michael S.
Spencer).

5 Working Collaboratively to Advance Prevention (Larry Cohen and
Ashby Wolfe).

Sidebars: Deborah Balfanz, Soowon Kim and Ellen Wu.

6 The Power of Local Communities to Foster Policy (Makani
Themba-Nixon).

7 Using Media Advocacy to Influence Policy (Lori Dorfman).

8 The Impact of Corporate Practices on Health and Health Policy
(Nicholas Freudenberg and Sandro Galea).

9 Primary Prevention and Program Evaluation (Daniel
Perales).

Part Three: Prevention in Context.

10 Preventing Injustices in Environmental Health and Exposures
(Stephanie Ann Farquhar, Neha Patel and Molly Chidsey).

Sidebars: Nancy M. Goff and Peter Murchie.

11 Health and the Built Environment (Howard Frumkin and Andrew
L. Dannenberg).

12 Creating Healthy Food Environments to Prevent Chronic
Disease

(Leslie Mikkelsen, Catherine S. Erickson, Juliet Sims and Marion
Nestle).

13 A Public Health Approach to Preventing Violence (Deborah
Prothrow-Stith and Rachel A. Davis).

Sidebar: Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah, Mysha R. Wynn and Donald
Parker.

14 The Limits of Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention
(Dan Wohlfeiler and Jonathan M. Ellen).

15 Mental Health in the Realm of Primary Prevention (Anita M.
Wells, GiShawn A. Mance and M. Taqi Tirmazi).

Sidebar: Joseph P. Gone.

Name Index.

Subject Index.