| The
components of this
prevention model interact to
create an infrastructure
that promotes policy
solutions and shifts
community norms. Click on
a component in the
illustration below to learn
more about the five
environmental prevention
building blocks:
Intentional Organizing,
Applied Data & Research,
Policy, Media Advocacy and
Enforcement. |
| This
model identifies and
reduces barriers to
public health by
shaping conditions
in the social, legal
and commercial
environment in
which problems
develop. Such
barriers range from
community attitudes
and traditions to
economics, public
policy, advertising,
enforcement
procedures and
access to
appropriate
resources. |
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| Rather
than address public health
issues by targeting individuals,
environmental prevention
targets those community
practices, attitudes and
values that encourage
unhealthy or unsafe
behavior. It succeeds by
promoting long-term,
purposeful, systemic change.
The Environmental Prevention
Model Diagram is Copyrighted
© by IPS (Institute for
Public Strategies). |
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