Comprehensive Chemical Health Promotion: Key Ingredients

As you plan programs to address chemical health problems in your community, there are a number of key ingredients that you will want to mix into your program design. In addition, there are important chemical health promotion messages that are good to emphasize as part of your program development.

Key Ingredients for Chemical Health Promotion Programs

  • Focus on population-based strategies that have more impact.
  • Promote policy development.
  • Promote environmental change.
  • Implement multiple strategies that reach many different types of people in a variety of settings.
  • Get the whole community involved.
  • Build the community's capacity to organize and problem solve

Key Chemical Health Promotion Messages

  • Alcohol and tobacco are drugs.
  • Alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems affect everyone in the community.
  • For youth-oriented chemical health promotion strategies, parents must be involved.
  • Provide alternative activities to chemical use.
  • Address community norms and beliefs.
  • Focus on chemical health promotion strategies that impact both demand and supply.
  • Focus on positive choices, or promoting healthy behavior, not just negative behaviors or what "shouldn't be".

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See also > Center for Health Promotion > Health Promotion and Chronic Disease