CHEMICAL HEALTH
Community Chemical Health Promotion Guide
- Introduction to the Chemical Health Promotion Guide
- Community Chemical Health Check
- Finding Chemical Health Resources In Your Community
- Building a Chemical Health Promotion Team
- Choosing Chemical Health Promotion Strategies
- Designing Chemical Health Promotion Messages
- Evaluating Your Chemical Health Program
- Chemical Health Promotion Funding
Why a Chemical Health Promotion Section?
Throughout this section, you will find tools and resources you can use in your community to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use problems.
The use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs contributes to many important public health problems in our communities. For example, chemical use is associated with chronic diseases, infant mortality, unplanned pregnancies, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, unintentional injury, violence, and the spread of AIDS/HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as morbidity and mortality.
Throughout Minnesota, communities are recognizing that use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs affects the health and social well-being of their citizens and their communities as a whole. They are actively responding to this challenge by creating partnerships between businesses, schools, religious groups, worksites, and other organizations in order to change the environment and make their communities healthier and safer places to live.
Community Health Promotion Guide Main Page
See also > Center for Health Promotion > Health Promotion and Chronic Disease