Strategies of Health Promotion Assessment Questions

Unit 3 Assessment Questions

1. This unit provided the 10-step approach of putting a communication campaign together. Step 6 involves selecting the appropriate communication channels. Why would selecting the right channel or channels be so important? What would be some of the examples of those channels if you were trying to put a communication campaign together that was designed to increase awareness for young people about the need for physical exercise and better eating habits to address the problem of obesity?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

2. What are some of the key components in the overall ecology of global health? Are these different from the ecological context for domestic health? If so, how? Please explain and provide supporting examples.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

3. Does mobile technology and social media change the way communications theory can be applied? Or do these developments change the theory itself?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

4. What are some of the most common global health issues occurring in the world today? Please select one of those issues, and describe some of the recommended health-related strategies and/or promotion techniques targeted towards improving or resolving that issue. 

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Unit 6 Assessment Questions

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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:

1. compatibility

2. complexity, and

3. observability.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

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