HLTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Female Condom

• School: Towson University
• Department: Health Science
• Course: HLTH 222
• Professor: Niya Werts

Document Summary

External actions put in place by someone or something (researcher, an agency, an individual) to impact the behavior of someone or something else (a community, a target group etc. ) Interventions can take place at different prevention levels we already identified. Example: a primary prevention program for hiv negative individuals would aim to prevent infection by promoting the use of condoms and other safe-sex strategies. Goal: to stop or reverse the progression of a disease. Example: a secondary intervention for people already diagnosed with hiv would focus on behavior change to prevent other strains of the virus from infection those already infected. Goal: tertiary interventions seek to control the complications of an illness or negative health condition. Example: the hospital decides to pilot an intervention to get hospitalized cancer patients to give up smoking to promote recovery from their surgery is an example. Understand the difference between dependant and independant variables.