健康行為與促進

Health behavior is key to public health, but people think that human behavior is hard to change! We need innovative ways of health behavior promotion, which depends on good understanding of the drivers of healthy and unhealthy behaviors. In this course, students will learn health behaviors theories that are foundations of health promotion and disease prevention, and apply the theories to develop strategies and techniques that promote health behaviors and evaluate the impacts. By the end of the course, students should understand theories, concepts and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health practices, and apply these theories, concepts and models to: - Identify social, economic and behavioral factors that affect health of individuals and populations. - Specify multiple targets and levels of intervention for social and behavioral science program and/or policies. - Effectively communicate social and behavioral science concepts with other public health practitioners and lay audiences. - Apply behavioral models/theories and evidence-based approaches to solving public health problems. - Apply intervention mapping tools to describe and analyze the public health behavior issues. - Design steps and procedures for the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health programs, policies and interventions.

References: • Peters et al. (2023) Intervention Mapping Workbook. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://intervention-mapping.gitlab.io/im-wb/im-workbook.pdf • Green et al. (2022) Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN : 9781421442969

Participation/discussion: 30% Health behavior promotion project: Checkpoint presentations 30%, Midterm report 20%; Final report 20% The course project requires teamwork. Please select a health topic and an associated health behavior of interest of your group. Your task will be to design an intervention program aimed at enhancing behavioral outcomes in a specific target population or setting throughout the course. The purpose of the checkpoints is to help you keep up with the course progress and offer opportunities to apply the theories. In-class discussion and collaboration: Your group will need to discuss and work on assignments in the intervention mapping classes. Checkpoint 1 in-class group presentation (May 13): Apply intervention mapping to analyze and design the health behavior for your targeted population. Do a literature search and summarize what health behavior theories/models have been applied to address the health behavior of interest. Checkpoint 2 in-class group presentation (June 3): Apply intervention mapping and behavior change methods to improve your plan. Draft how will you evaluate the performance of the intervention. Midterm report (Due on Apr 22 noon): Analyze a published paper that applied a behavioral model/theory to develop a health promotion program of your team’s topic. Every team member reads and analyzes a different paper. Analyze the paper from these aspects: 1) population, 2) health behavior, 3) theories/models, 4) program contents, 5) what you have learned from this paper, esp. about your final project. By ‘analyze’, please think critically the reasons of the study’s decisions, and compare synthetically between your group project and the paper. • Why do you choose the health topic and health behaviors for group project? Same or different to the paper? • Why do you choose the target population? Same or different to the paper? • Why did the study choose the health behavior theory/model. Do you agree or would you suggest other behavioral theory/model? Final report (Due on Jun 10): In this written paper, the student should, but not limited to, (1) justify your choice of the health behavior and the target population, (2) design a theory-based health intervention/policy, (3) review literature and summarize how the behavioral theory was applied to address other health issues, (4) make an evaluation plan on the proposed intervention/policy, (5) references. Final report format: - Every student prepares and submit his/her own report in English. - Do not exceed 10 pages (A4, double-spaced, 12 font-size), references included.

• Glanz et al (ed.) (2015) Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5th Ed. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-1-118-62898-0 • Bartholomew Eldredge et. Al. (2016). Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention Mapping Approach (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-1-119-03549-7

地點

R.405, 4F, Medical Building II

時間

Wednesday 78

聯絡方式

hsinjenchen@nycu.edu.tw