Long-Lasting Protective/Clinical Assignment

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An intervention might have long-term benefits, but not be classified as a long-lasting protective intervention. Long-lasting protective interventions typically either (a) involve on one-time or short-term environmental change that has long-term impacts or (b) have a one-time or short-term clinical component. I think things like preventive care (e.g., yearly preventive visits or screenings) are a grey area between long-lasting protective and clinical, so I will accept them for either category in this assignment.

Clinical interventions typically focus on improving access to/the quality of clinical care, or could relate to providing ongoing treatments (e.g., treatments for chronic physical conditions; mental health care given by counselors/psychologists/psychiatrists, etc.).

As a reminder, counseling and education interventions should not be included in the long-lasting protective/clinical paper. It gets tricky because I think people get confused by the term “counseling” within “counseling and education.” In this context “counseling” refers to counseling people about how to protect their health. So, for example, implementing short-term school or community-based interventions aimed to increasing awareness of a given health topic and motivating people to take ongoing action of some sort would be a “counseling and education” intervention.

Actual ongoing mental health care provided by health care professionals is sometimes colloquially referred to as “counseling” but it would fall in the clinical category for the purpose of our assignments (just as ongoing physical health care would fall in the clinical category).

The the interventions you choose for the assignment need to be evidence-based, but the evidence does not need to come from your state/city. For example, if I choose youth tobacco use in Omaha as my topic, I could still select interventions that were tested outside of Omaha/Nebraska.