Health educator planning for a health program. For this project, you become a health educator, planning for a health program, to help your target audience to: increase their health knowledge, develop healthy habits/skills/attitudes in order to enhance their chance of higher quality of life.
1) Listening to your target individual(s) (oral history under COVID). One page summary narrative, or a short video.(5pts.)
2) Choose one health issue of your target that needs to be addressed. Do a mini library/literature search on this topic. Minimum 2 references. (5pts.)
3) Plan for a one hour health education program for your target audience, and plan for evaluation.
Include one goal and at least one objective of your program. (5pts)
4) Make a page information flyer/pamphlet that you use for education.(5pts.)
5) Implement your program(5pts) and evaluate your work. (5pts)
five stages of program planning
Roadmap for State Program Planning|State Resources|DHDSP|cdc
Physical activity and exercise are priorities for health and fitness professionals. It behooves professionals to use a program planning model to clearly outline the program’s mission, goals, and objectives. Throughout the scientific literature, program planning models have been used as a foundation to test the efficacy of physical activity and exercise programs.
Program planning models guide health and fitness professionals through a process of strategically assessing the needs of the priority population, carefully planning appropriate interventions, executing the planned interventions, modifying the plan if necessary, and evaluating the immediate, short-term, and long-term efficacy of the program.
In addition, using such a clear, organized framework for reference during the planning and implementation of an intervention ensures tangible products/outcomes for presentation to key stakeholders. Therefore, the purposes of this Clinical Applications column are to describe the steps in a Generalized Program Planning Model (GPPM) as explained by McKenzie et al. (1), to give examples of how to operationalize these steps and to incorporate best evidence in the promotion of physical activity and exercise interventions.
Health and fitness professionals must understand the actual (or perceived) needs of their priority population (e.g., sedentary women, older men, etc.) that affect their health directly or indirectly. The following steps and examples for conducting a needs assessment have been adapted for use for health and fitness professionals from the responsibilities and competencies for Health Education Specialists (2):
To effectively plan, implement, and evaluate physical activity and exercise programs, health and fitness professionals must strategically develop a mission statement, goals, and objectives (1). A mission statement describes the purpose and breadth of the program. For example, a mission statement for a worksite-based fitness program may be as follows:
Once an inclusive mission statement is agreed upon by key stakeholders (e.g., managers, employees, individuals, and teams who offer or support programs), determining goals and objectives must ensue. Goals are broad statements that describe the desired results, including the expected direction of change in the outcomes of interest.