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Overview As healthcare managers, you will be involved in supporting or even administrating programs for health promotion. This assignment is designed to help you to gain an understanding of how to apply change theory and the Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change to health promotion activities in the healthcare environment. Consider the lectures and readings about promoting behavioral change. You will choose a health condition from Healthy People 2020—one that you have not chosen in a previous assignment. This will provide a framework to consider a behavior change that might apply to persons with this condition. O 1. Introduction:Do not use the heading “Introduction”;rather, repeat the title of the paper on the first line of page 2, where the body of the paper begins a. Describe the intent, or purpose, of the paper. (e.g., to apply principles of the TTM for health promotion). b. Provide brief background information (looking at change theory for a health promotion program, applying TTM, etc.). c. Identify the chosen condition from healthy people and how you will use that to frame your application. d. End the introduction with a statement that responds to the assignment question (thesis statement) of which the paper will develop the concepts to prove your statement. 2. Condition Chosen: In this section, discuss the condition chosen from Healthy People 2020 that you chose. Give an overview of why this condition is a health risk. Discuss the potential behaviors that may be associated to that condition and which behavioral changes would promote health. Then (because there may be more than one behavioral change), identify the specific behavior change that you will focus on for this paper. For example, with the condition of