Categories of Health Promotion Interventions
The Five Health Promotion Interventions are
What is Health Education, Health Communication, Health Policy, Health Engineering, and Community Mobilization?
Interventions that use communication strategies to inform and influence decisions that affect health.
This is the fourth category of health promotion interventions that include the laws, regulations, or formal and informational rules established by government or organizations.
What is Health Policy?
These are defined as a set of planned activities implemented over time to achieve specific objectives
What are Programs?
Campaigns that are characterized by the use of radio, television, and/or print media with broad distribution channels.
What is Mass Media?
This involves the target audience in the implementation of a program is an additional intervention category which is called this
Community Mobilization
These are the general tactics that programs use to achieve their stated objectives and goals, and they should be "based on knowledge about effective communication, the intended audience's needs and characteristics, and the program's capabilities, timelines, and resources."
What are strategies?
Campaigns that are smaller in scope and distribution and include patient education materials, fact sheets, newsletters, posters, displays, presentations, and promotional items such as pencils, magnets, and T-shirts.
What is Small Media?
These people play a vital role in the attainment of global health improvement goals.
What are Community Health Workers?
Any combination of planned learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary changes in behavior that are conducive to health.
What is Health Education?
This is a particular form of health communication that applies commercial marketing techniques to campaigns designed to promote voluntary behavior change conducive to health.
What is Social Marketing?
This includes socioeconomic factors, changing the context to make individual's default decisions healthy, long-lasting protective interventions, clinical interventions, and Counseling & Education.
What is the Health Impact Pyramid?
This targets the same antecedents as general health education but the instruction is associated with the classroom setting and school-affiliated events.
What is School-Based Health Education?
This involves altering a product or the enviornment to meet a behavioral objective.
What is Health Engineering?
This type of evidence comes from the prior experiences, skills, and insights of professionals.
What is Experiential Evidence?