Designing Interventions to Promote Community Health: A Multilevel, Stepwise Approach

This book provides a step-by-step process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions, focusing on individual, physical, and social determinants. It includes guidelines for engaging community members, building teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and adapting interventions for new communities. Case examples illustrate the four-phase design process.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 261 pages
Publication date: 02 August 2022
Publisher: American Psychological Association

This comprehensive book offers a detailed and systematic approach to planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions. It employs a framework that emphasizes the influence of individual, physical, and social determinants on health outcomes. The book is organized into four distinct phases, each outlined with precise and actionable steps. These phases cover crucial aspects such as identifying behaviorally based problems within communities, selecting the underlying behavioral determinants to target, designing intervention components and strategies, and assessing outcomes to enhance and disseminate the intervention.

Furthermore, the book provides valuable guidelines for involving community members throughout the process, forming collaborative teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and emphasizing the significance of formative and process evaluation. Additionally, the book offers practical insights for adapting interventions to new communities, with feature boxes highlighting key information and practical takeaways for students and interventionists.

To illustrate the application of the four-phase design process, the book includes detailed case examples that showcase various health promotion efforts. These case examples vividly portray the steps taken from the initial problem identification to the final evaluation, providing a real-world perspective on the effectiveness of multilevel interventions.

Overall, this book serves as a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers, and students interested in developing and implementing effective community health promotion interventions. Its comprehensive approach, practical guidelines, and illustrative case examples make it an essential tool for anyone seeking to improve the health and well-being of communities.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433836503