Models and Theories in Action

Models and Theories in Action
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance on how to successfully complete the Intervention Analysis assignment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assignment.
Scoring Guide Criteria
Describe how a current public health issue impacts a community.
Describe a theory or a model of social and behavioral change used by a public health organization.
Recommend enhancements to improve outcomes of community public health initiatives.
Create a document that is clearly written and generally free of grammatical errors.

Describe how a current public health issue impacts a community.
What kind of information describes the impact of a public health issue in a community?
Have you searched Healthy People 2020 for information about public health issues?
Describe a theory or a model of social and behavioral change used by a public health organization.
What is the definition of a public health behavior change model?
What is a concrete example you found in the research that shows a model at work?
Which public health organizations in your community are working on your chosen health issue?
What type of public health agency are you choosing to use?
Where would you look on the Web site for an example of a model or a theory in action?
How do you properly cite an Internet source?
Recommend enhancements to improve outcomes of community public health initiatives.
How can the elements in the model help a public health leader to enhance and support efforts to reduce incidents of communicable diseases?
How do you know if the public health agency was effective in meeting the needs of an individual, group, or organization?

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