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Community Safety as a Social Determinant of Health: A Workshop

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This workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners, leaders, and others with expertise in violence prevention and promoting community safety to (1) define community safety, (2) examine the landscape of threats to safety affecting specific populations, (3) explore attributes of physical spaces and social structures that create and reinforce safer communities, and (4) discuss frameworks for reimagining public safety, and related policy and programmatic interventions.

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The National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders held a public workshop in December 2023 to explore various dimensions of community safety and violence prevention in the U.S. Speakers highlighted attributes of physical spac...

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