Larry Cohen > Quotes

“Blum notes that, in reality, there are four major determinants of health: environment, heredity, lifestyle, and health care services. Of these four, Blum found that “by far the most potent and omnipresent set of forces is the one labeled ‘environmental, ’ while behavior and lifestyle are the second most powerful force” (p. 43).”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“Conceptualize that primary prevention extends beyond the individual by improving health outcomes of entire communities”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“prevention supports the health care infrastructure, is an effective use of health care resources, and assists those most in need by decreasing disparities in health.”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“approach takes a rising percentage of payments as income increases, whereas a regressive approach takes a falling percentage as income”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“moving our focus in the social and behavioral sciences from risk to resilience and from a concern with individual deficit and pathology”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“In other words, risk-focused studies do not generally give us research-based answers or prevention”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“those living in rural areas have higher levels of stress and fewer resources to cope with stress. For example,”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“women are the greatest consumers of health-related products and services. Women are often first to take responsibility, not only for the health and well-being of themselves and their offspring, but also for the health of men. This helps explain why single men have the greatest health risks—and why the benefits of marriage are consistently found to be greater for men than for women (who can suffer substantial stress in caring for their spouses) (Courtenay, 2000a).”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“The terms health disparities and health inequities are generally used in the United States,”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“More than habits, often based in culture and tradition, norms are regularities in behavior to which people generally conform (Ullmann-Margalit, 1990).”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“Furthermore, the return on investment for prevention is substantial; for every $1 invested in community-based prevention, the return amounts to $5.60 in the fifth year. Prevention investments result in savings for both public and private health care”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“Primary prevention requires a shift from a focus on programs to a focus on more far-reaching prevention initiatives and from a focus on the individual to a focus on the environment.”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“Thus the greater impact occurs with strategies that focus on the primary prevention of diseases at the policy and environmental-change”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“differences in health that are not only avoidable and unnecessary but in addition unjust and unfair.”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change (Institute of Medicine, 2000, p. 4). It is therefore essential for a successful prevention initiative to be comprehensive; it must address the environmental as well as individual”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“all people with fair opportunities to attain their full health potential to the extent possible” (Braveman, 2006, p. 167).”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

“The act of “moving upstream” and taking action before a problem arises in order to avoid it entirely, rather than treating or alleviating its consequences, is called primary prevention. The term primary prevention was coined in the late 1940s by Hugh Leavell and E. Guerney Clark from the Harvard and Columbia University Schools of Public Health, respectively. Leavell and Clark described primary prevention as “measures applicable to a particular disease or group of diseases in order to intercept the causes of disease before they involve man . . . [in the form of] specific immunizations, attention to personal hygiene, use of environmental sanitation, protection against occupational hazards, protection from accidents, use of specific nutrients, protection from carcinogens, and avoidance of allergens” (Goldston, 1987, p. 3).”
― Larry Cohen, Prevention Is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being