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Partnership for Prevention is a membership organization of businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies advancing policies and practices to prevent disease and improve the health of all Americans. We seek to increase investment in preventing disease and promoting health and to make prevention a national priority. MISSION STRATEGIC PRINCIPLES STRATEGIC FOCUS AND PRIORITY AREAS PROJECT SELECTION CRITERIA MISSION Partnership's mission is to improve health by preventing illness and injury and by promoting health. Our programs increase the priority on prevention in health-related policy and in the U.S. health care system. We accomplish this by: - Analyzing leading edge scientific research to identify effective polices and practices that should be adopted to accelerate progress towards better health for all Americans
- Convening diverse healthcare stakeholders and facilitating dialogue among them to assess critical issues, find mutually agreeable solutions, and set priorities for public and private sector action
- Educating decision-makers in every sector about innovative prevention policies and practices, providing analytical tools to aide implementation, and advocating for the adoption of these approaches
STRATEGIC PRINCIPLES
These lasting principles define Partnership's unique character as an organization and guide its efforts to accomplish its mission. - Partnership emphasizes prevention in full, rather than focusing on a specific chronic disease or type of injury
- In our mission of promoting prevention in full, Partnership's focus includes primary and secondary prevention and health promotion issues
- Partnership develops evidence-based policy recommendations and tools and advocates that they be used to inform policy decisions
- Partnership favors the development and advocacy of policies and policy tools that have the strongest evidence base and the greatest potential impact on public health
- Partnership's diverse membership distinguishes it from other health policy organizations and is a source of strength in policy development and advocacy
- Partnership only advocates positions that are informed directly by its own analyses or assessments of scientific value
Approved by Partnership for Prevention's Board of Directors, December 2003 STRATEGIC FOCUS AND PRIORITY AREAS Partnership carefully considers its strategic focus, priority issues, and additional project selection criteria before committing resources to any project or program. Partnership undertakes projects that utilize the following approaches: - Addressing timely issues with policy recommendations -- these projects involve developing and advocating for the adoption of new prevention policies
- Developing and applying policymaking tools -- these projects develop and apply tools that demonstrate prevention's value
- Leveraging the workplace to improve health -- these projects promote greater business involvement in health promotion and disease prevention
Approved by Partnership for Prevention's Board of Directors, December 2003 Partnership focuses its resources on the following priority areas: - Tobacco control and cessation
- Poor nutrition and physical inactivity (obesity)
- Immunization
- Alcohol abuse and misuse
- Crosscutting approaches to disease prevention and health promotion
Approved by Partnership for Prevention's Board of Directors, December 2004 PROJECT SELECTION CRITERIA In addition to the strategic focus and the priority areas, Partnership uses Board approved criteria to guide its selection of projects. Read Partnership for Prevention's Project Selection Criteria.
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