title: The wooing of primary prevention.
abstract: The metaphor of the paper's title offers a framework for a brief summary. Effective wooing of primary prevention requires that we take seriously and adhere to, its clear, sensible defining guidelines; systematize, and further develop, its generative base; use that base to guide the formulation of new primary prevention programs; further develop frameworks to promote informed choices of program directions from among many attractive possibilities; and be more hard-nosed as program evaluators. That type of courtship should improve our love life with--and perhaps even, science of--primary prevention in mental health.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008603:Mental Health; D011322:Primary Prevention; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control; D009626:Terminology as Topic