Health Promotion Strategies
Using the Intervention Mapping Approach in Taking a Best Practices Approach
Summary of processes involved in Assignments 1 & 2
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Possible issues for HP analyses
Previous students' selected community responses to HP issues
Assignment #1 (50% of final grade)
Assignment #1: checklist of required components
Assignment #2 (50% of final grade)
Assignment #2: checklist of required components
Exemplary assignment reports from previous year (2011)
Exemplary assignment reports from previous year (2010)
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Assignment #2: checklist of required components

Assignment 2: Checklist of required tasks/analyses
 
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4.     Part 4: Propose an intervention/response to your issue that more closely reflects best practice principles of health promotion, together with taking a socio-ecological approach—this can be considered as the idealintervention/response to your selected issue in the real-world of health promotion practice
This proposal should consider the following:
 
a.     The gap between taking a socio-ecological approach and the current response to your issue
 
b.    The principles and criteria that should guide all health promotion practice, with respect to the foundations of health promotion practice (i.e., goals, values, theory/beliefs, evidence) and health promotion strategies—students should identify their source(s) for these “idealbest practice principles/criteria
In undertaking this part of your assignment, I strongly recommend that you consult relevant parts of the following resource related to taking a best-practices approach in health promotion practice:
http://www.course-readings-and-resources.bestpractices-healthpromotion.com/attachments/File/Goodstadt%20other%20resources/Goodstadt_IDM_Best_Practices_workbook_2006.pdf )
 
c.     The gap between these “idealbest practice principles/criteria and the current response to your issue
 
d.    How closely the current intervention/response could approximate the (best practice and socio-ecological) “ideals” of health promotion, given the constraints imposed by the real-world environment and organizational structure, and what such an intervention/response would look like
 
5.     Part 5: propose an action plan designed to move the current intervention/response closer to the “idealbest practice intervention/response to the selected issue. This should include the following:
a.     Identification of objectives
b.    Indicators of success in achieving your objectives
c.     Tasks/activities/processes to achieve objectives (i.e., who will be responsible for what?)
d.    Time-frames & timelines
e.     Resources (required & available)
f.     Addressing challenges
g.    Evaluation plan
 
 
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