Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change

Audio Recording.m4a. Community and Group Models of Health Behavior Change.

Audio Recording.m4a. Introduction. Three theoretically informed approaches to creating and supporting health behavior change through groups, organizations, communities, and social systems Health promotion is often viewed solely from an individual perspective. Health care providers seeking to effect change should consider the functioning of groups, organizations, large social institutions and communities as part of an overall goal of health enhancement. Glanz et al., posit that improvements in health require an understanding of the multilevel determinants of health behavior and a range of change strategies at the individual, interpersonal, and macro levels. These chapters present a multilevel perspective..

Audio Recording.m4a. Why Community Models?. At the heart of public health is the creation of health behavior and policy, systems, and environmental change initiatives to benefit communities. The collective well-being of communities can be fostered by creating structures and polices that support healthy lifestyles, by reducing or eliminating health constraints in the social and physical environments, and by communication through a range of media. This requires an understanding of how social systems operate, how change occurs within and among communities and organizations, and how ideas and information spread (i.e. the internet and social media)..

Audio Recording.m4a. 3 Community/Group Models of Health Behavior Change.

Audio Recording.m4a. Why Should We Consider Community/Group Models of Health Behavior Change?.

Audio Recording.m4a. Improving Health Through Community Engagement, Organization, and Building.

Audio Recording.m4a. Clinical Application. In San Francisco, immigrant restaurant workers in Chinatown experienced discrimination and harm due to wage theft. This was documented and leveraged to pass the San Francisco Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance (signed into law in 2011) to benefit individual workers. The changes came from the community policy and were implemented through the restaurants..

Audio Recording.m4a. Implementation, Dissemination, and Diffusion of Public Health Interventions.

Audio Recording.m4a. Clinical Application. The Pool Cool Skin Cancer Prevention Program illustrates how enhanced strategies for implementation can simultaneously target individuals, organizations, and environments..

Audio Recording.m4a. Communication and Health Behavior in a Changing Media Environment.

Audio Recording.m4a. Clinical Application. MobileMums was an intervention that used mobile phones and text messages to deliver an effective intervention rooted in Social Cognitive Theory to new mothers across a broad geographic area..

Audio Recording.m4a. Conclusion. An understanding of individual behavior is still an integral component of change. Additionally, an understanding of theory, research, and practice in communities, systems, and organizations will be critical to continued improvement of health in the future..

Audio Recording.m4a. References. Glanz, K., Rimer, B. K., & Viswanath, K. (2015). Health behavior: Theory, research and practice. (5th Ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass..