Assignment Instructions
This assignment requires you to reflect critically on the themes covered in PUBH 440. Your essay should integrate various course concepts, demonstrate your understanding of these themes, and provide personal insights or applications to real-world scenarios.
Select Key Themes
Identify the course’s main themes that resonated with you or that you found particularly impactful.
Detail and Accuracy
Provide a detailed and accurate explanation of these themes using specific references to course materials, readings, lectures, or discussions.
Integration and Application
Integrate multiple course concepts and themes, showing how they interrelate. Apply these themes to relevant personal experiences, public health scenarios, or current events.
Reflection and Analysis
Reflect on the course themes, offering your personal insights.
Clarity, Coherence, and Quality
Ensure your essay is well-organized, clear, and coherent. Your writing should be of high quality, with proper grammar, spelling, and adherence to academic standards.
Formatting and Submission
Length: Your essay should be approximately 1500-2000 words.
Format: Use a standard academic format with 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, and double spacing.
Citations: Properly cite all sources using APA format.
Concepts to write about in the essay are
Social Determinants of Health
Health Belief Model
Theory of planned behavior
models of behavior changes in stages
Social, cultural, and environmental theories : examples in textbook
social cognitive theory
social network theory
Social Process Theories and Approaches: Diffusion of Innovations and Social Marketing
communications theory
multilevel theories,
The Granddaddy: Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory a multilevel systems approach for understanding child outcomes, including behavior.1,2 The basic idea is that child development and behavior can be understood as outcomes of the interaction between an individual and several levels or layers within the surrounding system (ecological system).
Flay’s Theory of Triadic Influence: the TTI model is organized around two basic dimensions: 1. Levels of causation 2. Stream of influence
The Integrated Behavior Model
Doing Something About It: The Ecological Perspective and the Move from Theory to Practice
Planning Approaches–One of the most well-known approaches for planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs is called PRECEDE–PROCEED.
Basically involve three steps:
Assessment (or diagnosis) of the health problem and its causal/supporting factors
Development or identification of an intervention (health promotion program) based on the assessment, targeting selected factors identified in the assessment (and utilizing appropriate theory to guide intervention components)
Evaluation of the intervention to determine whether it has been implemented as planned and whether it has actually affected the causal or related factors (identified in the assessment) that it was intended to affect
Communities and Populations as the Focus for Health Promotion Programs
Application of Theory: Schools and worksites
Application of Theory: High-Risk and Special Populations
Applying Behavioral Theory to High-Risk Populations and Contexts
Harm Reduction Approaches to Addressing High-Risk Behavior
Generative Approaches to Understanding Risk Behavior
Application of Theory: Global Health
The Global Health System
Government-level organizations:
Regional organizations
Public international or multilateral organizations:
Public or private financial institutions
Program Example : Social Marketing for STI Prevention
Evaluation: What Is It? Why Is It Needed? How Does It Relate to Theory?
Evaluation and the Current Program Environment
Using a “Logic Model” to Set Up an Evaluation
There are also different types of data that provide evidence of change, specifically, quantitative vs. qualitative data
All concepts are taken from the textbook Essentials of Health Behavior by Mark Edberg. 3rd edition
