PUBH 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Promotion, Occupational Safety And Health
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Typically, you will be addressing health issues within a. Community, in which a particular set of individuals, social groups, cultures and norms, economic patterns, politics, and resources all interact to help create a unique situation. Broader interventions can be called community interventions (ci). Community interventions tend to result in smaller changes, but over a large number of people a larger absolute number. For example, a community mass media intervention resulted in a 3% decrease in smoking. More targeted interventions within a community can be called interventions in the community. These focus on a segment of the community that is highly affected by a health problem. Hiv/ aids intervention might focus on intravenous drug users, because of the high risks involved in transmitting infection through shared equipment. Whether large or targeted, the intervention itself is almost always just part of the picture.
