BHAN332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Health Education
11 Jan 2017
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Ppm is a planning tool, not a theory. Program planners should identify a range of individual and environmental influences on important health problems. Key features: community involvement in planning process, data-based (epidemiologic) assessment of behavior and health, an emphasis on both individual behavior and environment, and the integration of evaluation into the planning process. Precede: individual behavior is influenced by: Reinforcing factors: factors that encourage behavior, including social and physical rewards; internal and external. Specific and to what degree of improvement: step 3: behavioral and environmental assessment. Identify behavioral and environmental factors associated with the objectives identified in previous phases. Logic is behavioral and environmental factors influence health outcomes: step 4: educational and organizational assessment. Prioritize factors according to their degree of changeability. Most cognitions are changeable, policy is not. Procede: step 5: administrative and policy assessment. Analysis of available and needed administrative and policy resources for program development. Administrative: time, money, resources, barriers to implementation.
