Course Description Prerequisites: P6728 and P8766 Needs Assessment in Public Health Most health promotion programs fail. The failure of these programs is often rooted in decisions based on precedent, tradition or intuition. An important lesson learned from analyzing these initiatives is that assumptions about complex health problems are frequently misguided, since they typically don't consider theory and research. Students in this course will learn and practice a complex, theory- and evidence-based approach to designing multi-level, community-based health promotion programs that can substantially improve the success of public health programs. This will be achieved through mastering the process of Intervention Mapping. "Each step of Intervention Mapping comprises several tasks. The completion of the tasks in a step creates a product that is the guide for the subsequent step. The completion of all of the steps serves as a blueprint for designing, implementing, and evaluating an intervention based on a foundation of theoretical, empirical, and practical information" (Bartholomew, p.15). |
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