Assignment #2 (65% of final grade) 1. Objectives
a. To develop an understanding of the strategies, activities, and processes employed in interventions that respond to health-related issues
b. To develop an understanding of the steps required to develop, implement, and evaluate health promotion interventions that more closely reflect a “real world ideal” of health promotion best practices
2. Assignment tasks/analyses:
a. Part 3 (25% of final grade): Identify, analyze, and discuss the strategies, activities, and processes employed by the intervention in addressing the health-related issue. This analysis must consider the following:
i. The general strategies (i.e., health education, community development, policy/advocacy, etc.) and specific activities employed
ii. The processes employed—that is, not just what was done, but how this was done
iii. The variety of strategies and activities employed, and how these relate to the social determinants of health associated with the various levels associated with taking an socio-ecological approach in addressing your selected issue (i.e., individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, societal, global); this should include consideration of the relationships, synergy, etc. among the activities, strategies, processes, etc. at the different socio-ecological levels
iv. The consonance/dissonance between these strategies, activities etc. and the stated/assumed underlying foundations (i.e., re. assumed individual and social-environmental determinants of health, goals/objectives, theories/beliefs, evidence, values)
v. The strengths and limitations of the intervention’s strategies, activities, and processes currently employed in responding to the selected health-related issue
b. Part 4 (25% of final grade): 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 ”ideal” intervention/response to your selected issue in the real-world of health promotion practice. This proposal should consider the following:
i. 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 “ideal” best practice principles/criteria
ii. The gap between these “ideal” best practice principles/criteria and the current response to your issue
iii. The gap between taking a socio-ecological approach and the current response to your issue
iv. 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
c. Part 5 (15% of final grade) : propose an action plan designed to move the current intervention/response closer to the “ideal” intervention/response to the selected issue. This should include the following:
i. Identification of objectives
ii. Indicators of success in achieving your objectives
iii. Tasks/activities/processes to achieve objectives (i.e., who will be responsible for what?)
iv. Time-frames & timelines
v. Resources (required & available)
vi. Addressing challenges
vii. Evaluation plan
3. These analyses should be based upon:
a. Documentation about the response (where this is available), and/or communications from key informants (where this is available), and/or inferences drawn about the intervention/response (based upon the student’s knowledge and/or understanding of the intervention)
b. Students should clearly identify the source/bases of their analysis and the conclusions they draw regarding the foundations underlying their selected intervention
4. Submit electronic version of report (65% of final grade)
a. Early feedback: Reports (or parts of reports) submitted by Tuesday, March 30, will be given electronic feedback and preliminary grade; these reports can be re-submitted if desired
b. Final date for submission: Reports due no later than Friday, April 16
c. Minimum of 10-15 pages SINGLE-SPACED (more, if more than one student); 1” margins all round; 12-point typeface (PLEASE!!) | 
