Health Promotion Strategies
Taking a Best Practices Approach
Possible issues for HP analyses
Previous students' selected community responses to HP issues
Assignment #1 (35% of final grade)
Assignment #2 (65% of final grade)
Summary of processes involved in Assignments 1 & 2
Exemplary assignment reports from previous years
Aids to better analysis & writing

Summary of processes involved in Assignments 1 & 2

 
ASSIGNMENT 1
ASSIGNMENT 2
 
Current issue
Current response
Current response
 
Identifying “ideal” response in real world
Bridging gap between current and “ideal” response
Action plan to move current response closer to “ideal” response
Identifying & describing current response
(i.e., strategies, activities, processes)
Identifying “gaps” in current response
Underlying foundations of health promotion practice
 
Analysis of foundations of current response:
Values
Theories and beliefs
Evidence
 
 
Identifying gaps between stated/assumed foundations & values, theory, and evidence in actual response 
General HP principles that should guide all interventions/responses
1.        re. values, theory, evidence 
2.        re. interventions (e.g., multiple synergistic strategies at multiple levels--see Bartholomew et al.)
3.        re. addressing the social determinants of health
Proposed “bridging” of  gap between HP “ideals” and current response
1.       Objectives & indicators of success
2.       Tasks/activities to achieve objectives
3.       Timelines
4.       Resources
5.       Challenges
6.       Evaluation
 
OR
1.       Who
2.       What
3.       How
4.       When
5.       With what resources
6.       With what intended effects
 
 
Socio-ecological analyses
 
[May use Intervention Mapping Approach and/or “problem tree” analysis”]
Socio-ecological analysis of health-related issue
 
 
Socio-ecological analysis of current response
 
 
 
 
The variety of strategies and activities employed in the response, and how these relate to the SDOH at the various levels associated with taking an socio-ecological approach in responding to  your selected issue
Identifying gaps between socio-ecological understanding of (1) the issue versus (2) the response—this will identify strengths & weaknesses
Optimizing correspondence between socio-ecological analyses of issue & response—within the constraints of the “real” world of HP practice
Proposed “bridging” of  gap between socio-ecological understanding of issue & response
 
Michael Goodstadt Ph.D., C.Pych. Director, MPH Program in Health Promotion, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada. m.goodstadt@utoronto.ca