The substance abuse pandemic: determinants to guide interventions.
The substance abuse pandemic calls for a comprehensive model from which nurses can organize the vast array of drug and alcohol knowledge required for practice in the community. The model health for all: a model for nursing's contributions provides a framework for organizing factors that affect health status into four determinants: biologic, sociocultural, medical-technologic-organizational, and environmental. The model serves as an organizing mechanism to present key information about alcohol and drug abuse.
Talashek
M L
ML
Department of Public Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612.
Gerace
L M
LM
Starr
K L
KL
D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003469:Culture; D004777:Environment; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*