PI Perspectives
Our take on important issues affecting the prevention community.
Published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion, this article sheds light on the five unintended consequences of "obesity," and provides strategies to remove us from a focus on the "O" word and from blaming the individual for their condition.
THRIVE was created to answer the question, what can communities do to improve health and safety and promote health equity? THRIVE is a framework for understanding how structural drivers play out at the community level to impact the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic/ educational environments - i.e. the community determinants of health - and consequently, health and safety outcomes, and inequities in outcomes. THRIVE is also a tool for engaging community members and practitioners in assessing the status of community determinants, prioritizing them, and taking action to change them to
This paper describes how a community-environmental approach could reduce health disparities in California.