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The National Prevention Strategy makes clear, prevention can save lives, reduce the demand on health care services, build equity and save money.

The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community.

WLU psychology professors Geoff Nelson, Mark Pancer and Colleen Loomis hope the province takes notice of their ongoing project's latest findings - piling more evidence onto their argument that at-risk children who participate in early prevention programs are more likely to succeed later in life.

CEO's of 6 national foundations and health care organizations released a joint letter yesterday calling for greater investment in community prevention.

The Violence Prevention Office in the APA Public Interest Directorate staffed the working group. The report identifies and recommends public health strategies and interventions based on the best available science to prevent child maltreatment and to promote positive parenting practices within the context of behavioral health integration at community health centers.

Poverty is the single greatest threat to individual human development and it simultaneously creates profound social disruption in the United States and around the world. Unless institutions and citizens take steps now to reduce and prevent poverty--and the growing inequality that deepens and widens its damaging repercussions--we will face a nightmarish future that can be measured in untold numbers of destroyed lives, communities, and institutions.

According to a new report out by the Center of Excellence for Early Childhood Development , children who attended preschool and received appropriate interventions were at less risk for violence.

Improving the Health of Canadians: Exploring Positive Mental Health brings together available information and data analyses that look at one way of defining positive mental health, how we currently measure it, its role in health, the factors associated with high levels of positive mental health and what strategies are, or may be, effective at promoting mental health at a population level.