May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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an ideal public health system it looks a little bit like a,
a pyramid where we have more primary prevention services at
the bottom rung broadly available to families or to, to, to
everybody in society. Universal programs --
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Right.
-- for the large part.
Give us a couple of examples of what those might
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be?
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A Well, in health sector, of course, they're
inoculation, vaccination, all of those kinds of things.
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Okay.
In early intervention in the health sector it
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includes sort of more targeted sort of efforts to reach
children, adults that, that need special kinds of education
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and early intervention services.
And then, of course, you
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have the tertiary or treatment level.
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Okay.
If we want to apply that to the child welfare
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system we would have more than three rungs of service.
At
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the bottom level we do still have sort of universal level
kinds of programs, and those would be things like early
childhood education, parent, parenting programs and so on
that are broadly available to people in the community on a
voluntary basis.
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Okay.
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