Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Health Promotion, Summative Assessment, Mysociety

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

Document Summary

Chapter 3 program planning models in health promotion. Involves identifying how interventions/programs will be the means through which the objectives and goals are reached. Putting interventions into evaluation and action to focus on improving the quality and effectiveness: evaluating results. Formative evaluations focus on quality while summative evaluations focus on effectiveness: assessing needs. Involves analyzing and collecting data to determine the health needs of a priority population. Involves setting priorities and identifying the priority population. Planning is essential to a successful health promotion program, while planning models provide planners with a framework to build interventions upon that can help to improve the health of individuals and communities. It is important to use evidence-based approaches to ensure that health outcomes are improved, which is the basis for the creation of the evidence-based framework for public health. This model includes the following phases: phase 1 community assessment. Important for planners to understand the context, characteristics health concerns, and circumstances of the community.