Strategies of Health Promotion

QUESTION 1

The Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) explains how people acquire and maintain certain behavioral patterns. Please outline some of those patterns and explain why they occur in the first place. Also, indicate how health promotion practitioners use this theory’s principles in order to design effective behavior change interventions.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

QUESTION 2

Discuss how an existing poorly structured organizational culture might affect the work-related health behaviors of a company’s workers

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

QUESTION 3

Please define the concept of a political-economic approach. What are some of its key principles? Using HIV/AIDS as an example, please address/answer the following question: What issues would a political-economic approach address in terms of potential action or actions?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

QUESTION 4

Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) Theory explains how, over time, an idea or product gains momentum and diffuses (or spreads) through a specific population or social system. The end result of this diffusion is that people, as part of a social system, adopt a new idea, behavior, or product. Define the term social system as it is being used in this context. Then, discuss the key aspects/elements of these three factors that influence adoption of an innovation. Please provide a couple of supporting examples applicable to each of these three factors:

compatibility

complexity, and

observability.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.