Community Resilience and Public Health Practice

Community/practice/academic partnerships in public health.

The forging of links between academia and the field of practice is a much-discussed topic. The 1988 Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Public Health noted that public health academic institutions had become “isolated from the field of public health practice.”1 The Committee opined that neither academia nor practice can work at the desired level of excellence without the perspective a...

The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project — A Community-Level, Public Health Initiative to Build Community Disaster Resilience

Public health officials need evidence-based methods for improving community disaster resilience and strategies for measuring results. This methods paper describes how one public health department is addressing this problem. This paper provides a detailed description of the theoretical rationale, intervention design and novel evaluation of the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Pro...

Public health and community medicine instruction and physician practice location.

BACKGROUND Experts have historically recommended better integration of public health content into medical education. Whether this adoption is associated with physician practice location has not been studied. PURPOSE To examine the association between medical student perception of their public health and community medicine instruction and practice location in a Health Professional Shortage Are...

Teaching/Training and Practice of Public Health/PSM/Community Medicine

Community interventions to prevent violence: translation into public health practice.

T his supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine presents evidence reviews and recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) regarding three intervention areas for the prevention of violence: firearms laws, early childhood visitation, and therapeutic foster care. 1–3 Of the interventions evaluated by the Task Force, two are recommended for ...