Health promotion theory by Davies, Maggie; Macdowall, Wendy

By Davies, Maggie; Macdowall, Wendy

Wellbeing and fitness promoting is much from straight forward. except public healthiness practitioners discover and comprehend the idea underpinning future health advertising, there's a genuine probability of, at most sensible, developing useless interventions and, at worst, antagonising or even harming the very humans you're trying to support. This publication will consultant you thru the philosophical, methodological, theoretical, moral and political Read more...

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attracts on key steps in sensible software of health and wellbeing merchandising. This booklet discusses how you can plan health and wellbeing promoting programmes, the right way to evaluation them and the way to extend their impression by way of scaling-up the Read more...

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Not to be redistributed or modified in any way without permission. 1 Select a health promotion intervention you are interested in and draft one research question each about the intervention’s effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability. Then think about the kinds of research designs that might help you address each of these questions, taking five minutes to complete each question. Feedback You may have chosen to specify your questions very precisely or instead opted for a broader focus in some or all of the defining dimensions, perhaps along the lines of: ‘I’d like to know the extent to which various health promotion interventions are effective (and/or feasible and/or acceptable) for affecting this problem’.

The WHO guide for community nurses (2001) identifies five key steps to be undertaken in needs assessment: profiling; prioritizing; planning; implementing; and evaluating. These steps are used and expanded upon in this chapter to help you think through the logical process of needs assessment activity. Profiling This involves the collection of relevant information that can inform you about the state of health and health needs of the population and the analysis of this information to identify major health issues.

Cavanagh S, Chadwick K (2005) Health Needs Assessment: a practical guide. London: National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence. 117] at [07/18/16]. Copyright © McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC. Not to be redistributed or modified in any way without permission. Needs assessment Page 36 The groundwork Ewles L, Simnett I (2003) Identifying health promotion needs and priorities. Chapter 6 in Promoting Health: a practical guide. London: Baillière Tindall. Gillies P (1997) Effectiveness of alliances and partnerships for health promotion.

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