1
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Describe the social ecological model
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- comprehensive approach that focuses on many levels of intervention
- individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, policy
- social, environmental, structural factors that shape health
2
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Strengths and limitations of a social ecological approach
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STRENGTHS
- comprehensive, multiple levels of analysis
- cumulative impact
LIMITATIONS
- complicated
- costly
3
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Define lifestyle drift. What are some explanations for lifestyle drift in health promotion intervention?
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- lack of progress in reducing health inequalities
- implement causality
- even when we know upstream approaches are more impactful, efforts revert back to addressing lifestyle issues
- focuses on individual risk management, efforts start where someone is going upstream but eventually switch to downstream behaviours
4
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Importance of settings to health promotion
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- target diverse and multiple levels of influence in diverse and multiple settings are more effective than single level/single setting interventions
- settings are understood as mutli-dimensional to have cumulative impact
- joint influence of multiple settings on well-being
- social system in which persons are designated for change are reached or recruited
5
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Identify setting, target population, program approach, and intervention strategy
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- setting = social system (organizations, communities, societies)
- target population = persons or entities designated for change (individuals, communities, political systems)
- intervention strategy = specific sequencing of one or more targets
