Question

D Week 5 Essay Assignment 1. Expiain the general foundation of the social ecological approach to behaviour change. 2 Discuss at least three assumptions those who organize communities can make. 3 Provide a summary, in order, of the steps in a generic model of community organizing and building. 4. Explain the difference between health education and health promotion. 5. Describe, in order, the generalized steps for program planning.

Answer 1

1. Explain the general foundation of the social-ecological approach to behaviour change?

Interaction between and interdependence of factors within and across all levels of a health problem
-The behaviour has multiple levels of influence
-Behaviour change usually a combination of individual and environmental/policy-level interventions

First, you must identify your problem

Then plan to attack each problem

Get resources

Carry out the plan then evaluate.

Inheriting the community organizing programming processes behaviour change, therefore, in order for the community organizing to be successful people must change their behaviours. It is going to take a multi-level intervention to achieve substantial changes in health behaviour,

2. Discuss at least 3 assumptions those who organize communities can make?

1. Communities of people can develop the capacity to deal with their own problems;

2. people want to change, and can change;

3. people should participate in making, a dusting, or controlling the major changes taking place in their communities;

4. Changes in community living that are self-imposed or self-developed have a meaning and a permanence that imposed changes do not;

5. A "Holistic approach" can deal successfully with problems with which a "fragmented approach" cannot cope;

6. Frequently, communities of people need help in organizing to deal with their needs, just as many individuals require help with individual problems.

3. Provide a summary in order of the steps in a generic model of community organizing and building?

1. Recognizing the Issue
2. Gaining Entry into the Community
3. Organizing the People
4. Assessing the Community
5. Determining Priorities and Setting Goals
6. Arriving at a Solution and Selecting Intervention Strategies
7. Implementing the Plan
8. Evaluating the Outcomes
9. Maintaining the Outcomes
10. Looking Back

4. Explain the difference between health education and health promotion?

Health education is a planned learning experience based on theories that provide people (and communities) the opportunity to acquire the info and skills needed to make quality health decisions.

Health promotion is a planned educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms/programs that support healthy actions and conditions of living of individuals, groups, and communities.

5. Describe, in order, the generalized steps for program planning?

a. assessing needs
b. setting goals and objectives
c. developing an intervention
d. implementing the intervention
e. evaluating the results