Primary Prevention also promotes good things happening in the community. Primary Prevention focuses on good health issues. It focuses on developing and maintaining healthy life-styles . This program goes hand in hand with all other areas of community development. Community-ownership Community ownership of community problems, and community ownership of their own solutions, is a fundamental principle of Primary Prevention.
Local people identify their own problems and are responsible for finding their own solutions.
If we have ownership of programs we have control of our own destiny. To be effective the community must have new tools at its disposal. The first and most important of these new tools is the ability to work as a team. The teamwork approach Teamwork is a specific skill which needs to be developed and encouraged. In a Teamwork situation people's efforts are more structured, they learn to appreciate the talents of the other members, they become more involved, and they have more fun working things out together.