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.
Department of Public Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612.
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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*