Publications

Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments offers a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy, strategy, and program recommendations to realize this vision. Promising Strategies serves as a launch pad for further discussion, a catalyst to understand how specific efforts fit into a broader picture, and identifies areas for collaboration across sectors and fields.

Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living outlines a range of organizational practices and public policies being considered to improve the built environment in support of healthy eating and regular physical activity. Prevention Institute developed this document based on key informant interviews and a scan of policy and research reports. This document serves as a resource to identify target policies and opportunities towards building healthy environments.

Fostering Physical Activity for Children and Youth: Opportunities for a Lifetime of Health outlines a range of organizational practices and public policies being considered to improve quality and quantity of physical activity among our nation’s children and youth. This document is part of a larger strategy to identify high-impact approaches that will move us closer to our vision of healthy people in healthy places. Download this publication here.

Recipes for Change:Healthy Food in Every Community
This paper examines opportunities to change the food system to benefit our physical, economic, social, and environmental health. Fueled by research, innovative policies, and grassroots energy, the movement to increase access to healthy foods and to create a sustainable, equitable food system can provide a springboard for public action and local activism. Download this publication here.

Introducing the Convergence Partnership (pdf) outlines the 10-point vision statement for the partnership; illustrates the linkages between healthy people and healthy places; and describes the partnership’s four core strategies to create environments that foster good health.

Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments (pdf) offers a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy, strategy, and program recommendations to realize the vision of healthy people in healthy places. Prevention Institute developed this document for the Convergence Partnership after conducting extensive research and numerous interviews with diverse stakeholders and constituencies.

Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research (pdf)
In an effort to further illuminate the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities, PolicyLink and Prevention Institute published an edited volume with details and depth into the intersection of transportation, equity and health. The publication is composed of chapters written by leading academics and advocates from across the nation covering topics from public transportation, walking and bicycling, to safety and economic development. The book highlights key policy solutions and provides background on the federal surface transportation policy.

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To access individual chapters of the book, please visit the "Impacts" section of our Transportation and Health 101 Toolkit.

The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America, a report by PolicyLink and Prevention Institute and commissioned by the Convergence Partnership, is a guide to how healthy, equitable transportation policies can improve the quality of life for everyone, and in particular for vulnerable communities. The upcoming federal transportation bill authorization -an over $500 billion investment that will set transportation policy and funding in the United States for approximately the next six years –presents an enormous opportunity to improve health and promote equity through our transportation system.

For additional information about the affects of transportation on health, please visit our Transportation and Health 101 Toolkit. There you will find resources, presentations, publications and advocacy opportunities related to this vital issue.