Theoretically Speaking: Overview and Summary of Key Health Education Theories  

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Goldman, Karen Denard ; Schmalz, Kathleen Jahn

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Health Promotion Practice vol. 2 no. 4 (Oct. 2001), page 277-281.
Fulltext: 277HPP24.pdf (49.62KB)

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Say you are responsible for addressing a health problem that affects many people. Your challenge is to design an intervention to prevent or remediate that health problem. Where do you start? Assuming that you did not shout out “With theories, of course,” we have written this column to promote the use of theories right from the very beginning and to provide a summary of some of the key theories being used in health education and promotion today. If you want more, let us know. We hope that the first thing you do when confronted with a health problem is to ask “Why does this problem exist?” and to try to answer this question by identifying all behaviors or circumstances that might cause or be associated with the problem. However, some of us tend to immediately focus on figuring out which personal behaviors or actions are jeopardizing the person’s health without looking at why those behaviors are happening. We put it all on the individual with the problem! In short, we “blame the victim.” In spite of the important role of personal responsibility in health, we need a broader approach—a comprehensive, multidimensional, ecological approach—if we are to effectively influence health and health behaviors. Theories related to different levels of causation can help.

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