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Promotion and Prevention: What Do These New Buzz Words Mean to Me?

Tue, 2012-04-03 10:53 -- admin

A fact sheet about the usage of the words promotion and prevention:

  • Promotion means doing what we can to improve one’s mental health, just as we do certain things to improve our physical health.
  • Prevention means doing what we can to prevent certain mental disorders from developing, while keeping others from getting worse.
Publication: 
Promotion and Prevention – What Do These New Buzz Words Mean to Me.pdf [1]
Source URL (retrieved on 2013-02-08 22:56): http://www.ffcmh.org/content/promotion-and-prevention-what-do-these-new-buzz-words-mean-me

Links:
[1] http://www.ffcmh.org/sites/default/files/Promotion%20and%20Prevention%20%E2%80%93%20What%20Do%20These%20New%20Buzz%20Words%20Mean%20to%20Me.pdf