Substance Use Prevention and Public Health: Recognizing the Role of Prevention in a Wider Field – Webinar Series Tuesday, September 5, 2023 1 p.m. ET

Substance Use Prevention and Public Health: Recognizing the Role of Prevention in a Wider Field – Webinar Series Tuesday, September 5, 2023 1 p.m. ET https://pttcnetwork.org/centers/central-east-pttc/event/substance-use-prevention-and-public-health-part-1-recognizing-role?utm_source=SAMHSA&utm_campaign=0dbad6c6f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_23_01_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0dbad6c6f1-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D Substance use prevention is one of many human service fields that seek to improve the overall health and wellbeing of populations and communities. Collectively, these fields are known as public health. This first webinar will provide a broad overview of public health and what can be the role of the substance use prevention field within it. It will describe the idea of public health and the similarities that exist across its service fields, such as: a focus on preventing issues before individuals require clinical services, seeking to address environmental factors and the social determinants of health, reducing health disparities, and implementing population-level services, among others. Part 2 of the series, which takes place on Thursday, September 7 at 1 p.m. ET, will discuss how prevention professionals can better implement a public health approach to prevention.