 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Larry Cohen, MSW, Prevention Institute, 265 29th Street, Oakland, CA 94611, 510-444-7738, larry@preventioninstitute.org
This presentation will provide an overall conceptual framework for violence prevention projects at the local, state or national level. It will describe prevention methodology in general, the three keys to violence prevention, and a tool that assists practitioners in taking a comprehensive approach to violence prevention.
Prevention is a systematic process that promotes healthy behaviors and reduces the likelihood or frequency of an incident, condition, or illness. Ideally, prevention addresses health problems before they occur, rather than after people have shown signs of disease or injury.
A key tenet of prevention strategy is that complex problems require comprehensive solutions. Prevention efforts that achieved significant outcomes all required going beyond education and using a multifaceted approach. To help practitioners develop and structure comprehensive initiatives, the Spectrum of Prevention tool, a framework developed by Larry Cohen, will be introduced and discussed as a basis for the other presentations.
The overview will focus on the inter-relationship between different types of violence and how they affect families and youth. Violence is a public health issue that contributes to disparities in health, and a framework will be introduced that delineates these linkages. Through primary prevention practitioners can work to eliminate these disparities.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.