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Ruby Navarro 

Week 2 Discussion 1

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Utilizing Chapter 1 of the course textbook, briefly describe the history of health program planning and evaluation in the U.S.

What one event stands out as a significant catalyst in this process, and why?

 

Since the 1900s, there has been tremendous progress in persons' health, such as the eradication of smallpox and poliomyelitis, through education and interventions created at that time of history. The government made progress by creating a primary disease prevention change. Health promotions were the turning point in the past; in 1974, Canada published "A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians," soon to follow was the United States passing PL 94-317, "the Health Information and Health Promotion Act."  Next followed the U.S. governments "Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, connecting links that defined personal behaviors and health status. Healthy People shared similar messages to past publications; Healthy People's uniqueness was research, easily readable, and available to the public. In 1979 the Role Delineation Project started, creating, and defining roles of entry-level health educators. This progress into other positions.

 

Bibliography

James F. McKenzie, P. M. (2017,2013,2009). Health Education, Health Promotion, Health Education Specialists, and Program Planning. In Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs (p. 2).

 

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Victor Musa 

Week 2 Discussion

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Utilizing Chapter 1 of the course textbook, briefly describe the history of health program planning and evaluation in the U.S. What one event stands out as a significant catalyst in this process and why?

 

 According to our textbook, (McKenzie, Neiger, & Thackeray, 2017), program planning is a process that is designed to address questions such as “What is needed?” and “How will the needs be addresses?” Through a systematic process, the answers to these questions form the basis of an intervention approach. Program evaluation on the other hand focuses on addressing whether the intervention is working. Evaluation includes questions related to how and if a program is working as it was intended and if there are any unintended consequences. The history of health program planning and evaluation in the United States began in the early 1900s, and the first evaluation took place in the area of education. During that time, the need for health education spread to the public health arena, but it was writers, social workers, visiting nurses, and journalists who were doing the education, not health specialists, as we know them to do today.

 One event that stood out as a significant catalyst in a health program planning is the reason why health education specialist was formed. The role of the health education specialist in the United States as we know it today, is one that has evolved over time based on the need to provide people with education interventions to enhance their health. As we gained more knowledge about the relation between disease and health behavior, it was realized that the journalists, visiting nurses, writers, and primary care givers (dentist, physicians, and other independent practitioners) were unable to provide the needed health education. The combination of heavy workload of the primary care givers, and the lack of formal training in the process of educating others created the need for health education specialist. The reason why this stood out to me is because when we think of health education specialist, we would normally not think of writers or journalists as one of them, but through our reading, we have learned that they were once considered as such and we also see how far the role of health education specialists have come.

 

Reference

McKenzie, J.F., Neiger, B.L., & Thackeray, R. (2017). Planning, implementing, & evaluating health promotion programs: A primer (7th Ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson/Benjamin Cummings.

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