Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Decision Fatigue, Health Promotion, Numeracy

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Planners must decide on most appropriate means of reaching or attaining goals. Must adopt, adapt, or design a set of activities that will permit the most effective (leads to desired outcomes) and efficient (uses resources in responsible manner) intervention. Intervention = planned actions that are designed to prevent disease or injury or promote health in the pp. Multiplicity = number of activities that make up intervention interventions with several activities more likely to have an effect on pp aim at multiple levels of influence socio-ecological approach. Dose = number of program units delivered greater dose, greater success. Strategy = general plan of action for affecting a health problem. Health communication = the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that affect health. Defined by the form it takes in health promotion programs (eg. mass media, media advocacy, risk communication, public relations, print material, etc)