Question

critique the article precede-proceed and demonstration of critical thinking? are there some phases of the people model that you can clearly see applied in the article ?

Answer 1

The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is a comprehensive structure for assessing health needs for designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion and other public health programs to meet those needs. PRECEDE provides the structure for planning a targeted and focused public health program. PROCEED provides the structure for implementing and evaluating the public health program.

PRECEDE stands for Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation. It involves assessing the following community factors:

- Social assessment: Determine the social problems and needs of a given population and identify desired results.

- Epidemiological assessment: Identify the health determinants of the identified problems and set priorities and goals.

- Ecological assessment: Analyze behavioral and environmental determinants that predispose, reinforce, and enable the behaviors and lifestyles are identified.

- Identify administrative and policy factors that influence implementation and match appropriate interventions that encourage desired and expected changes.

- Implementation of interventions.

PROCEED stands for Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Educational and Environmental Development. It involves the identification of desired outcomes and program implementation:

- Implementation: Design intervention, assess availability of resources, and implement program.

- Process Evaluation: Determine if program is reaching the targeted population and achieving desired goals.

- Impact Evaluation: Evaluate the change in behavior.

- Outcome Evaluation: Identify if there is a decrease in the incidence or prevalence of the identified negative behavior or an increase in identified positive behavior.

# Critical thinking involves the evaluation of sources such as data, facts, observable phenomenon, and research findings.

The skills that we need in order to be able to think critically are varied and include observation, analysis, interpretation, reflection, evaluation, inference, explanation, problem solving, and decision making.