COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEMS

Catalog description

This course focuses on public health prevention science and its application to the implementation of substance use interventions. The content focuses on community systems for addressing substance use problems that affect whole communities. These community systems incorporate evidence-based prevention interventions at various levels of influence within a socio-ecological perspective. Students will examine the development of community organizations that come together to address specific problems, and how they network and integrate with existing organizations that provide community services. The content draws from the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention that were published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2013; 2015) and the European Drug Prevention Quality Standards published by the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (2011). Primary emphasis is on evidence-based interventions and policies and on implementation quality and sustainability.