Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Health Advocacy, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Numeracy

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Need to adopt, adapt, or design an activity or set of activities that would permit the most effective and efficient. These planned activities make up the intervention achievement of the outcomes stated in the goals and objectives. Intervention: the planned actions that are designed to prevent disease or injury or promote health in the priority pop. Multiplicity: the number of components or activities that make up the intervention. Activities are more likely to be effective if they are aimed at multiple levels of influence. Better chance of being effective if using socio-ecological approach or a systems approach. Dose: number of program units delivered to the priority population. Greater dose = greater chance for change. Strategy: general plan of action for affecting a health problem. Health education specialists should use strategies that are evidence-based. Health communication: the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that affect health.