Social and Behavioral Approaches to
Public Health PUBH 6007 Test #1
Questions and Answers.
PRECEDE evaluation tasks - Answer specifying measurable objectives and baselines
PROCEED evaluation tasks - Answer monitoring and continuous quality improvement
Phase 1 of Precede-Proceed - Answer social assessment
Phase 2 of Precede-Proceed - Answer epidemiological assessment
Phase 3 of Precede-Proceed - Answer educational and ecological assessment
Phase 4 of Precede-Proceed - Answer administrative and policy assessment and intervention
alignment
Phase 5 of Precede-Proceed - Answer implementation
Phase 6 of Precede-Proceed - Answer process evaluation
Phase 7 of Precede-Proceed - Answer impact evaluation
Phase 8 of Precede-Proceed - Answer outcome evaluation
What is a SMART goal? - Answer Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant/Realistic, Time-
specific
What are the SMART goal objectives? - Answer Educational, Behavioral, and Health
Educational Objective: - Answer Change in specific attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, expected to
result from intervention
Increases likelihood of achieving the behavioral objectives
, Behavioral Objectives: - Answer Change in specific practices or actions (behaviors) expected
to result from the intervention: adopting a new behavior, changing an existing behavior,
cessation of an unhealthy behavior.
Increases likelihood of achieving the health objective
Health Objectives: - Answer The change in health related status or outcome expected to
result from the intervention.
Should be big picture and of public health significance.
Decrease morbidity or mortality, reduce incidence or prevalence, improve health status
What is a logic model - Answer A systematic and visual way to present and share your
understanding of the relationships among your resources to operate your program, the
activities you plan, and the changes or results you hope to achieve.
Why are logic models important? - Answer Defines the program rationale, clarifies
stakeholders' implicit program theories, articulates program rationale, helps identify specific
interventions, helps identify unintended effects, focuses the evaluation on critical areas,
supports the rationale and planning for scale up, required by most funders.
Health Belief Model (HBM) - Answer model for explaining how beliefs may influence
behaviors
Health Belief Model constructs - Answer Perceived susceptibility, perceived severity,
perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, self efficacy
Perceived Susceptibility - Answer Likelihood one will get disease or condition
Perceived severity - Answer beliefs about gravity of contracting disease/illness
Perceived benefits - Answer perceived benefits about available actions to reduce threat
Perceived barriers - Answer belief about the 'costs' of advised health action
Cues to Action - Answer strategies to activate readiness
Self Efficacy - Answer confidence in one's ability to take action
Public Health PUBH 6007 Test #1
Questions and Answers.
PRECEDE evaluation tasks - Answer specifying measurable objectives and baselines
PROCEED evaluation tasks - Answer monitoring and continuous quality improvement
Phase 1 of Precede-Proceed - Answer social assessment
Phase 2 of Precede-Proceed - Answer epidemiological assessment
Phase 3 of Precede-Proceed - Answer educational and ecological assessment
Phase 4 of Precede-Proceed - Answer administrative and policy assessment and intervention
alignment
Phase 5 of Precede-Proceed - Answer implementation
Phase 6 of Precede-Proceed - Answer process evaluation
Phase 7 of Precede-Proceed - Answer impact evaluation
Phase 8 of Precede-Proceed - Answer outcome evaluation
What is a SMART goal? - Answer Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant/Realistic, Time-
specific
What are the SMART goal objectives? - Answer Educational, Behavioral, and Health
Educational Objective: - Answer Change in specific attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, expected to
result from intervention
Increases likelihood of achieving the behavioral objectives
, Behavioral Objectives: - Answer Change in specific practices or actions (behaviors) expected
to result from the intervention: adopting a new behavior, changing an existing behavior,
cessation of an unhealthy behavior.
Increases likelihood of achieving the health objective
Health Objectives: - Answer The change in health related status or outcome expected to
result from the intervention.
Should be big picture and of public health significance.
Decrease morbidity or mortality, reduce incidence or prevalence, improve health status
What is a logic model - Answer A systematic and visual way to present and share your
understanding of the relationships among your resources to operate your program, the
activities you plan, and the changes or results you hope to achieve.
Why are logic models important? - Answer Defines the program rationale, clarifies
stakeholders' implicit program theories, articulates program rationale, helps identify specific
interventions, helps identify unintended effects, focuses the evaluation on critical areas,
supports the rationale and planning for scale up, required by most funders.
Health Belief Model (HBM) - Answer model for explaining how beliefs may influence
behaviors
Health Belief Model constructs - Answer Perceived susceptibility, perceived severity,
perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, self efficacy
Perceived Susceptibility - Answer Likelihood one will get disease or condition
Perceived severity - Answer beliefs about gravity of contracting disease/illness
Perceived benefits - Answer perceived benefits about available actions to reduce threat
Perceived barriers - Answer belief about the 'costs' of advised health action
Cues to Action - Answer strategies to activate readiness
Self Efficacy - Answer confidence in one's ability to take action
