Gamby medical and business collage health education and promotion assignment 4 and 5

By Dirb Biru ID 009

1. What steps do you follow in developing health promotion program?

 Diagnosis phase
 Program development phase
 Implementation phase
 Evaluation

2. What research styles do you use to identify a health problem and define determinants of behavior?

 experimental research
 Survey
 Documentary and filed research
 Filed research

Define determinants of behavior,

Predisposing factors are related to the motivation an individual or a group to act. These determinants
are psychological or cognitive in nature including variables as awareness, knowledge, beliefs and
attitudes and perceive needs and perceived abilities.

Reinforcing factors determine whether the individual or group receives positive or negative feedback
and support.

Enabling factors facilities, the motivation to take action. Including aspects relating to the individual such
as the skills that are needed to carry out behavioral change. And also environmental factors like
availability and affordability.

3. Consider the following steps and design a health promotion program. Diagnose a health
problem and write a health objective; identify the behavioral factors and write behavioral
objective; identify the environmental factors and write environmental objectives ; identify the
behavioral and environmental determinants (predisposing, reinforcing and enabling actors ) and
write intervention objectives

Diagnosis

 Unimmunized children blow 5 years in rural area.

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Health objectives

 Redaction by 50% of unimmunized children blow s years in rural area the next two years.

Behavioral factors

 Care takers knowledge, intention

 Religious back grounds

Behavioral objectives

Redaction by 25% of unimmunized children below 5 years by increasing the awareness of their family in
two years.

Redaction by 15% of unimmunized children by avoiding unwanted religious practice in one year.

Environmental factors

 Distance of health facility related to home

 Policy implementation system
 Transportation system
 Availability of work for the community

Environmental objectives

o Build nearby health facility

o Policy implemented for every child below 5 years should be immunized
o Aval access to transportation
o Participate the community in different work

Behavioral determinants

 Predisposing factors, knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, perceived needs, perceived ability

 Reinforcing factors, family, community leaders and decision makers, also health care providers
 Enabling factors like accessibility and affordability of the services, lack of participation in the
community and affordability of the resource.

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Environmental determinants

This are the enabling factors we can stimulate or hinder behavioral change like active participation in the
community, effective use of resources, create work environment and exchange information and so on.

Intervention

Objectives relating to the redaction of unimmunized children below 5 years in rural area in practicing
home to home and meeting area health education by health professional, strong policy implementation
to immunize their children, avoid unwanted religious practice and building nearby health facility.

Assignment 5

Situation: You are seeing more cases of Type II diabetes in community Y where your facility is situated.
You feel you got to address the issue through designing health education program. To develop the
program, you got to do research.

What research styles do you use for each phase in the diagnosis (diagnosis of existing situation,
behavioral and environmental causes and determinants of the causes)?

What will be your data source for each phase?

What data collection tool do you use at each phase?

Answers

Diagnosis of existing situation-experimental

Behavioral causes-survey

Environmental causes-documentary

Determinates of causes-field research

What will be your data source for each phase?

Data source for diagnosis of existing situation: medical record (documentation of a patient’s medical
history and care), patient survey (instrument capture self-reported information from patients about
their health care experience), and standard clinical data.

Data source for behavioral causes:

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