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The
elements of this prevention model interact to
create an infrastructure that promotes policy
solutions and shifts community norms. Click
on an element in the illustration below to learn
more about the five environmental building
blocks: Intentional Organizing,
Applied Data and Research, Policy, Media
Advocacy and Enforcement.
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environmental prevention 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
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than address public health issues by targeting
individuals, environmental prevention targets
those community practices, attitudes and values
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It
succeeds by promoting long-term, purposeful,
systemic change. The Environmental Prevention
Model Diagram is Copyrighted © by IPS (Institute for
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