Other colleges are beginning to look further into the community for assistance. This awareness has led to a greater focus on prevention efforts as a means for insuring good health. Prevention efforts are generally much less expensive than providing treatment and are easier to scale up or down according to budget fluctuations. Colleges have come up with a variety of methods for integrating prevention into the curriculum and campus activities. Curricular infusion of health promotion topics has been pursued quite extensively by community colleges.
Some community colleges offer entire courses on a particular health issue.
By moving into more intensive and integrated efforts for health promotion such as curricular content, peer education, and service learning opportunities, community colleges are attempting to incorporate these recommendations. Colleges must be sure that the services they do provide are of high quality. It may be better for some colleges to have no services rather than poor services. However, this does not mean that they must leave their students with no options for health services. Colleges should explore the possibilities of partnerships with local community organizations and hospitals to provide services on campus, making them more accessible to students in need.