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Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture

Findings and recommendations to build a collaborative movement for a just, sustainable, health-promoting food system.

Eliminating Health Disparities: The Role of Primary Prevention

A paper describing how health disparities can be reduced through systems-based prevention strategies that address the underlying factors influencing health.

Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide

A guideline for the process of coalition building to help advocates and practitioners on issues ranging from the appropriateness of a coalition to membership selection and conducting ongoing evaluations.

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

This report helps make the connection between factors in the environment and their impact on health.

Prevention Is Primary

This textbook frames prevention as an essential component of health and provides a conceptual and practical guide to the application of prevention methodologies across a wide range of contemporary health and social problems.

Prevention Saves Money and Lives/Prevention for a Healthier America

A report demonstrating that investing in community-based prevention saves money

Reducing Healthcare Costs through Prevention

This report suggests that a majority of the most costly health conditions are preventable and just a 5% reduction in preventable illnesses and injuries could lead to substantial savings. 

Restructuring Government to Address Social Determinants of Health

This highlights options from government officials, community advocates, and researchers for improving our nation’s health. 

Setting the Bar: Recommendations for Food and Beverage Industry Action

This details Strategic Alliance’s recommendations to the food and beverage industry for ways they can positively contribute to a healthy food environment.

Tensions in Turf: Making It Work for the Coalition

A paper discussing the common type of turf struggles, reasons they occur, and recommendations for limiting the negative aspects of turf.  A supplement to Eight Steps to Effective Coalition Building.

The Links Between Neighborhood Food Environment and Child Nutrition

This paper identifies key investigations of the neighborhood food environment, examines current efforts to bring about improvements and discusses new research and policy priorities.

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Putting Prevention at the Center of Community Well Being
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