Is Environment Really A Function?

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I congratulate David Foxcroft for this fine paper “Can prevention classification be improved by considering the function of prevention?” In essence, it proposes, in addition to the classification into universal, selective, and indicated (“forms”), another axis, where environmental, developmental, and informational approaches are introduced as “functions.” In this system, environmental prevention would no longer be a fourth category complementing universal, selective, and indicated prevention, but another functional dimension, pervading transversally the three forms of prevention. When David presented his model at the Second Annual Meeting of the European Society for Prevention Research, I was puzzled, and since then, have continued pondering whether this proposal is really preferable to the model we have been promoting within the EU. …