Defining Prevention Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sloboda, Zili (Editor), Petras, Hanno (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Prevention Science
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Whoever coined the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" could not have known how important this adage would become. The challenge of altering the health trajectories of poor lifestyle decisions for such behaviors as smoking, drinking, and using illicit drugs, violence, d...