According to Allender, Rector, and Warner, the priority nursing goal for people suffering from homelessness should be establishing criteria to help them develop abilities that will lead them to take advantage of opportunities and cultivate better life choices (2014, p. 834). Therefore, for an intervention to be successful, it should focus more heavily on prevention; and because of its acute characteristics, all forms of prevention should be included to counteract its prevalence (The Homeless Hub, 2017). In public health, three principal forms of prevention are being utilized to respond to community problems.
Primary prevention is a public health strategy that is aimed to prevent the occurrence of community problems through teaching techniques.
Primary prevention is a public health strategy that is aimed to prevent the occurrence of community problems through teaching techniques.