Community Health - Exam 1 Blueprint
What is systems thinking?
· Studies how an individual or unit interacts with other organizations or systems
· Useful in examining cause & effect
What is upstream thinking?
· Used to focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical
treatment models that focus on care after an individual becomes ill
· Useful in examining preventative measures
Nightingale's environmental theory
· Highlights the relationship between an individual's environment & health
· Focus is preventative care (upstream thinking)
Health belief model - people will make a change if these 4 actions are true
· Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, & threat of a disease
· Modifying factors (age, gender, race, knowledge level)
· Cues to action: advice from Dr., social media, commercials
· More benefits than barriers - take action / more barriers than benefits - will not
Milio's framework for prevention
· Complements the health belief model
· Emphasizes change at the community level
· Connections between health deficits & prevention
What is systems thinking?
· Studies how an individual or unit interacts with other organizations or systems
· Useful in examining cause & effect
What is upstream thinking?
· Used to focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as opposed to medical
treatment models that focus on care after an individual becomes ill
· Useful in examining preventative measures
Nightingale's environmental theory
· Highlights the relationship between an individual's environment & health
· Focus is preventative care (upstream thinking)
Health belief model - people will make a change if these 4 actions are true
· Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, & threat of a disease
· Modifying factors (age, gender, race, knowledge level)
· Cues to action: advice from Dr., social media, commercials
· More benefits than barriers - take action / more barriers than benefits - will not
Milio's framework for prevention
· Complements the health belief model
· Emphasizes change at the community level
· Connections between health deficits & prevention
