Strategies / Methods in Public Health Promotion & Education Flashcards
Practice of HPE is influenced by:
- Stress on environmental vs. individual change
- Stress on high risk individuals vs. whole population where risk is evened out
Factors to be considered in selecting strategies for HPE:
- Objective of the intervention
- Characteristics and need of the target group
- Resources to include human, financial & time
FOCUS Acronym for
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Classification of Health Promotion Strategies / Methods
*Use of behavioral change theories
-Precontemplation : people are not thinking about change, no interest in change
-Contemplation: people are thinking about change
-Preparation & Action: there is an effort to have a behavioral change
-Confirmation: people can maintain the new behavior
Classification of Health Promotion Strategies / Methods:
*According to target factors
-Communication: targeting the predisposing factors
-Training: targeting enabling factors
-Community Organizing / Social Mobilization: targeting environmental & reinforcing factors
Strategies in Health Promotion & Education
- Counseling
- Group Discussion
- Mass Media
- Social Marketing
- Folk Media
- Enter – educate approach
- Generally of short duration, frequently consisting of one or two appointments;
- It is highly situational rather than general & chronic
- The client is normal/rational neither neurotic nor dysfunctional
Counseling
The Three Phases of Counseling
- Understanding-Defining the problem
- Challenging-Redefining the problem
- Resourcing- Managing the problem
“ A process of helping people learn how to achieve personal growth, improve interpersonal relationships, resolve problems, make decisions & change behavior.” (Green & Morton, 1984)
Counseling
“A set of techniques, skills & attitudes to help people manage their own problems using their own resources.” (Reddy, 1987)
Counseling
- a planned opportunity for participants to freely exchange ideas or opinions
- most participatory of all the group communication techniques
Group Discussions
Members are expected to speak and seek one another
Group Discussions
-a channel wherein large number of people are addressed
- target group make little or no effort to receive the message
- Mass Media
Influences of Mass Media on Societal Norms
- Reinforce existing patterns
- Create new shared convictions
- Can change existing norms
The use of marketing principles & techniques to advance a social cause, idea or behavior (Kotler & Zaltman, 1971)
Social Marketing