New Resource Alert: Improving Health & Reducing Disparities Through Prevention

The Prevention Institute has just released a report, Disparity Reducing Advances Project: The Imperative of Reducing Health Disparities Through Prevention: Challenges, Implications, and Opportunities , outlining promising approaches and next steps for reducing health disparities. The presented approach to reducing health disparities focuses on the way that fundamental causes of inequality (e.g., economics and oppression) shape community environments. Community environments in turn shape behaviors such as eating and activity patterns, tobacco and alcohol use, and violence and improving these environments represents a tremendous opportunity for promoting community wellbeing.

You can view the PDF of the report by clicking on the link above. If you are interested in reading more about the Prevention Institute's work in community health and health disparities, please visit the website.