Screening and Brief Intervention: Making a Public Health Difference

(http://www.jointogether.org/keyissues/sbi/) Screening and Brief Intervention: Making a Public Health Difference

Join Together published a policy report encouraging the increased use of screening and brief interventions. This policy report serves as a primer on screening and brief interventions (SBI) issues, covers barriers to expanded utilization, and recommends ways to boost understanding and usage of this important public health tool.

The report recommends the following for Health Care Settings:

• Don't expect physicians to bear the sole responsibility for widespread public health implementation of SBI.
• Involve specialty health providers to share the responsibility for providing SBI services.
• Include SBI as part of medical school curriculum and residency training.
• Use screening tools that emphasize ease of use, and integrate screening for alcohol and drug use with other routine preventive screenings.

Additionally the report recommends: Encouraging professional associations to endorse SBI as routine health care practice; Expanding SBI beyond the health care system; Repealing state insurance laws that discourage screening and brief intervention services; and Using direct to consumer marketing to raise the demand for screening and brief interventions.

Order a copy of the report or download it now using the link below.

http://www.jointogether.org/jump.jsp?path=/aboutus/ourpublications/pdf/sbi-report.pdf

2.0 MB

Publication Year: 2008

Publisher

Join Together
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
715 Albany St, 580 -- 3rd Floor
Boston, ma 02118
Phone: 617-437-1500
Website: http://www.jointogether.org
Email: info@jointogether.org