Creating Health Behavior Change Vol. 43 : How to Develop Community-Wide Programs for Youth

by Cheryl L. Perry

• ISBN13: 9780761912262
• ISBN10: 0761912266
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-18
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The purpose of this book is to provide a process for the development of effective community-wide health behaviour programmes for children and adolescents. Significant behaviour change among young people across a variety of behaviors and community-based research studies has been achieved through programmes that have been created on this ten-step process.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Successful Health Behavior Change Programs	3	(8)
A Broad View of Health	11	(3)
The Challenge	14	(3)
Preparing for Program Development	17	(26)
Selecting Health Behaviors for a Community-Wide Program	17	(2)
Providing a Rationale for the Selected Health Behavior	19	(14)
Creating an Intervention Model of Predictive Factors	33	(8)
Summary	41	(2)
Determining the Program Components	43	(30)
Writing the Intervention Objectives	43	(2)
Ensuring That Intervention Objectives Are Applicable to the Targeted Population	45	(9)
Determining Which Types of Programs Are Most Applicable	54	(16)
Summary	70	(3)
Creating the Health Behavior Program	73	(26)
Creating Program Components From Intervention Objectives	73	(15)
Constructing the Health Behavior Program	88	(9)
Summary	97	(2)
Implementing and Maintaining a Health Behavior Program	99	(18)
Implementing Community-Wide Health Behavior Programs	99	(9)
Maintaining Health Behavior Programs	108	(2)
Summary of the Ten Steps	110	(1)
Additional Considerations	110	(5)
A Final Word	115	(2)
References	117	(12)
Author Index	129	(6)
Subject Index	135	(5)
About the Author	140