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This paper outlines the guidelines for sustaining prevention and makes suggestions for getting from the field's current status to greater levels of permanence for prevention. The paper begins by reviewing the status of prevention, then focuses on major considerations for achieving sustainability, including two processes of institutionalization, comprehensive programming and professionalism.
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Educação em Saúde , Avaliação de Processos e Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/prevenção & controle , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Currículo , Medicina Baseada em Evidências , Guias como Assunto , Humanos , Estados UnidosRESUMO
A program titled "The Images Within" was implemented and evaluated in three sites on the east coast of the United States. This school curriculum uses art work developed by children of alcoholics to stimulate classroom discussions of the problems of parental alcohol abuse. The evaluation with 278 experimental and 310 control students indicated increased knowledge about the effects of alcohol and improved skills in coping with alcohol problems and help seeking behavior. Process data indicated that related programs were initiated, students were stimulated by the program and teachers were positive in their perceptions of the program. Schools implementing this program need to have developed referral networks to handle the individual concerns that are expressed as a result of participation in "The Images Within."
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Alcoolismo/prevenção & controle , Arte , Filho de Pais com Deficiência , Educação em Saúde/organização & administração , Serviços de Saúde Escolar/organização & administração , Adaptação Psicológica , Adolescente , Criança , Currículo , Feminino , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Humanos , Masculino , Aceitação pelo Paciente de Cuidados de Saúde , Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de SaúdeAssuntos
Benzazepinas/uso terapêutico , Bloqueadores dos Canais de Cálcio/uso terapêutico , Doença das Coronárias/tratamento farmacológico , Diltiazem/uso terapêutico , Bloqueadores dos Canais de Cálcio/efeitos adversos , Diltiazem/efeitos adversos , Hemodinâmica/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Educação de Pacientes como AssuntoRESUMO
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a government-funded drug abuse data gathering system used extensively at the federal, state, and local levels in policy formulation and program evaluation, and as an indicator of changing trends in substance abuse. This paper (1) briefly describes the DAWN data, (2) examines reviews of the DAWN system, (3) assesses the strengths and limitations of the DAWN data, and (4) illustrates some possible further uses of these data for research and policy purposes.
