community-centered approach

a concerted, coordinated approach by local agencies and facilities to address such problems in a community or catchment area as mental disorder, delinquency, and substance abuse. This approach holds that since these problems developed in the community, efforts at prevention and treatment should be community-based rather than the province primarily of state institutions or federal agencies.

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March 16th 2025

prodrug

n. a drug that is either biologically inert or of limited activity until metabolized to a more active derivative.