A framework for prevention

Prevention activity often occurs at different levels of community and social network. At the smallest level it could occur among a group of drug users and their peers, at the largest level, it could take the form of international drug treaties and conventions. Clearly, there are a number of ways of...

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Main Author: Lenton, Simon
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09595236.asp
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17318
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description Prevention activity often occurs at different levels of community and social network. At the smallest level it could occur among a group of drug users and their peers, at the largest level, it could take the form of international drug treaties and conventions. Clearly, there are a number of ways of facilitating changes at these different levels of community and social network. This paper describes a framework that has been used by the National Drug Research Institute. It is useful in explaining that various prevention activities can operate at different community levels and in different contexts and describes their mechanisms of action. The framework borrows from, and adapts, the 'alcohol prevention conceptual model' of Holder and the 'conditional matrix' of Strauss and Corbin. The framework is limited in that it is not a fully conceptualised, data based or theory driven model that specifies how its elements relate to one another. Despite these limitations it has proved to be useful in planning, understanding and describing prevention activity.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-173182017-05-30T08:04:33Z A framework for prevention Lenton, Simon prevention - community - policy - theory Prevention activity often occurs at different levels of community and social network. At the smallest level it could occur among a group of drug users and their peers, at the largest level, it could take the form of international drug treaties and conventions. Clearly, there are a number of ways of facilitating changes at these different levels of community and social network. This paper describes a framework that has been used by the National Drug Research Institute. It is useful in explaining that various prevention activities can operate at different community levels and in different contexts and describes their mechanisms of action. The framework borrows from, and adapts, the 'alcohol prevention conceptual model' of Holder and the 'conditional matrix' of Strauss and Corbin. The framework is limited in that it is not a fully conceptualised, data based or theory driven model that specifies how its elements relate to one another. Despite these limitations it has proved to be useful in planning, understanding and describing prevention activity. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17318 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09595236.asp fulltext
spellingShingle prevention - community - policy - theory
Lenton, Simon
A framework for prevention
title A framework for prevention
title_full A framework for prevention
title_fullStr A framework for prevention
title_full_unstemmed A framework for prevention
title_short A framework for prevention
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topic prevention - community - policy - theory
url http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09595236.asp
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17318