President Obama's Health Plan and Community-Based Prevention
Andrew Goodman, MD, MPH
The author is with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY.
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INTRODUCTION
The recent passage of President Obama's stimulus package, whichearmarks $650 million for a Wellness and Prevention Fund, raiseshope of an era where prevention not only is touted as an effectivestrategy to improve health and prevent disease but also is fundedsufficiently to produce results. The benefits of a comprehensiveprevention agenda, including suppression of ever-rising healthcare costs, have been well documented.1 Far too often, though,the health care reform debate revolves almost exclusively aroundincreasing access to care and realigning incentives to focuson clinical preventive care. For instance, a recent op-ed inthe New York . . . [Full Text]
A ROLE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED PREVENTION
THE NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY-BASED PREVENTION MODEL
PREVENTION EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE FOOD ENVIRONMENT
LOCAL RESEARCH INFORMS PREVENTION ACTIVITIES
IMPROVING HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PREVENTION APPROACHES
