Planning effective health promotion programs involves detailed and strategic efforts grounded in well-established models. These programs aim to address social issues like unemployment, crime, and welfare dependency to improve the quality of life in target populations.
Planning a Health Promotion Program:
- A good health promotion programs are not created by chance, they are product of much effort and should be based on well-developed models
Example of types of planning models for health education/promotion program:
- PRECEDE (Green et al, 1980)
- PRECEDE/PROCEED (Green & Kreuter, 1991)
- MHEP (Ross & Mico, 1980)
- CHEM (Sullivan, 1973)
- MHEPRD (Bates & Winder, 1984)
- GHFDS (Patton et al , 1986)
- PATCH (Green & Kreuter, 1999, CDC1983)
Importance using a mode;
- Models are means by which planners give structure and organization to the programming process
- Models provide planners with
- Direction and supply a frame on which to build
Health educators' responsibilities are involved in some way with planning, implementation and evaluation
Social Diagnosis
- Quality of Life (QOL)
- To determine the QOL as defined by social problems in the target population (illegitimacy, welfare, unemployment, absenteeism and crime)
Educational Diagnosis
- To assess the cause of the health behaviour
- Predisposing factors
*Attitude, values, beliefs, knowledge
*Smoking- feel cool (belief), accepted by peers (value), danger (knowledge)
Reinforcing factors
- Resources and skills needed for behavior change
- Exercise : safe and convenient place - improper exercise can cause muscle soreness and injury
Enabling factors
- Reward or encouraging feedback (+ve or -ve)
- smoking : encouraging by peers
Behavioral Diagnosis
- To identify those specific health related behaviors that seemed to be associated with the prioritized health problem in phase 2
PRECEDE/PROCEED
- Green & Kreuter (1999)
- One of the most widely used health assessment and planning models