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Module 2b Transparency
Selected Definitions of Prevention
- Multiple Processes
Prevention is about multiple processes which involve people in a proactive effort to protect, enhance, and restore the health and well-being of individuals and their communities. It defines health as not simply the absence of disease; it is something positive-a joyful attitude toward life.
Central Valley Regional Prevention Forum
Framework For Community Prevention (1988)
- Protective
The objective of primary prevention is to protect the individual in order to avoid problems prior to signs or symptoms of problems. It also includes those activities, programs, and practices that operate on a fundamentally nonpersonal basis to alter the set of opportunities, risks, and expectations surrounding individuals.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Prevention Plus II (1989)
- Comprehensive
Prevention must be comprehensive, involving all systems (educational, medical, law enforcement, religious, business, etc.). Prevention efforts must be focused on programs and strategies that deal with individual risks and environmental conditions.
The White House Conference for a Drug-Free America
Final Report (1988)
- Directed
In order for prevention to be successful, prevention system efforts must be directed toward the potential and active users (the host), toward the sources, supplies, and availability of the drugs (the agent), and toward the social climate that encourages, supports, reinforces, or sustains the problematic use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (the environment).
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Community Prevention System Framework for Alcohol
and Other Drug Prevention (1990)
- A Proactive Process
Prevention is a proactive process intended to promote and protect health and reduce or eliminate the need for remedial treatment of the physical, social, and emotional problems associated with the consumption of [drugs and] alcoholic beverages. It addresses individuals, the environmental settings in which they live, and the larger community.
Lawrence M. Wallack, John W. Ratcliffe,
and Friedner D. Wittman
Comprehensive Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Prevention Strategies (1984)
- Collaborative
Prevention can now be defined as a collaborative school and community process to plan and implement multiple strategies that: (1) reduce specific risk factors contributing to tobacco, alcohol and drug use, and related behavioral problems among youth; and (2) strengthen a set of protective factors to ensure young people's health and well-being.
California Department of Education
Not Schools Alone (1990)