HLTH 230 Lecture 2: Unit 2 notes2
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Based off of psychological models: brofessbrenner, belsky. Response to public health in the 1980"s: health is a result of lifestyle. That health is due to your choices and behaviors rather than due to environment/genetic/etc. factors: insurance beginning to drop coverage due to lifestyle . Programs at the time were not reaching intended participants. Significant results using this method to design interventions: policy and environmental changes are expected to affect large populations vs. those that self select. Lack of research and understanding of how the broader levels influence one another: interactions are difficult to measure. Very demanding on the interventionist, evaluator, researcher. Need for skills in advocacy and political change. Individual self-efficacy, knowledge about behavior, attitudes about behavior. Interpersonal friends/family/social networks, the habits of those people, role models. Institutional places in which we go every day (school, work, church, etc.
