Public Health planners use theoretical change methods to influence change in targeted behaviors and environmental conditions – these are the active ingredients of an intervention. Practical applications are the activities or materials used in an intervention. Anyone change method may lend itself to different types of practical applications, so public health planners must choose the application that is the best fit for the context. It’s also important to ensure that the practical application will be feasible and culturally relevant for your priority population and setting. Planners select practical design applications to operationalize methods in ways that fit with the intervention group and the context in which the intervention will be conducted. Some methods help target all determinants and change an environmental agent’s behavior (for example, a policymaker or a healthcare provider). Planners package methods and practical applications into program components to develop a multilevel intervention or guide the selection of an existing evidence-based intervention.
In week 5, you will follow the first three steps and briefly summarize how you would use practical applications to inform and design culturally appropriate program, policy, or intervention that addresses behavioral and environmental change for a health topic in your selected population.
Step 1: Select your priority population and health problem (already chosen during week one): African American pediatrics obesity
Step 2: Develop one practical application and method utilized to influence predisposing, reinforcing, enabling for behavior change?
Step 3: Develop one practical application and method utilized to influence environmental change.
Didactic Resources:
What is an EBI?
Resource: https://education.missouri.edu/ebi/what-are-evidence-based-interventions-ebi/
How do I know if an intervention is Evidence-Based?
Resource: https://search.cdc.gov/search/index.html?query=evidence%20based%20interventions&dpage=1
• Will you provide an example of an EBI?
Resource: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2009.433
Resource: https://www.houstontx.gov/health/Aging/ebi.html
Resource: https://www.cdc.gov/screenoutcancer/interventions/index.htm
Resource: https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/State-Health-Planning/Healthy-Connecticut/Where-to-Find-Evidence-based-Interventions-and-Methods