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What is Prevention?
Prevention is a proactive approach; creating an environment that promotes the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, which prevents problems before they occur.
Why is it important?
- Prevention is cost-effective; saving $64 for every $1 invested (on average).
- Prevention improves the health of individuals, families and communities.
- Prevention decreases consequences and saves lives.
What works?
- Prevention focuses on reducing risk factors, strengthening protective factors and building resiliency of individuals, - families and communities.
- Prevention follows the Public Health Model, focusing on population-level change.
- Prevention requires a multi-faceted approach, implementing a variety of evidence-based strategies working toward a common goal.
- It can take time to see the results of prevention.