Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Promotion, Strategos, Move

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jeannie Samuel

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Issues shortcomings: one of the common shortcomings of issues as an entry point is that it is not unusual to design intervention strategies that are focused on the individual level without taking into account the broader social context, therefore, issues traditionally addressed through individually based models of behavior change, not based on the idea that individual strategies are bad, but issues will be more effective as an entry point if we think about it more in a multidimensional way, looking at how things are connected and the bigger picture. Going beyond looking at the target individual: therefore, one of the critiques of issues as an entry point is how it usually target individuals for interventions (cid:224) there is a need to look at the more structural/policy factors and causes, thinking in the broader levels (cid:224) community, policy, organizational, , want to address more fundamental root causes, need to better understand the factors/mechanisms that put people at risk in the.