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Book SynopsisThis bookarticulates a clear four-phase process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions using a framework focusing on determinants from the individual, physical, and social environments.
It breaks down each phaseinto detailed yet easy-to-follow steps that review important procedures, like identifying a behaviorally based problem within a community, choosing the underlying behavioral determinants to be targeted by the intervention, selecting intervention components and strategies, and evaluating outcomes to improve and further disseminate the intervention.
Guidelines for engaging community members in the entire process, building teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and the importance of formative and process evaluation are reviewed as well. Also presented are instructions for adapting interventions for new communities.
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Dr. Lytle’s extensive experience in designing, developing, and evaluating multilevel behavioral interventions is the foundation for this important and timely book for researchers and practitioners. She has been the lead on many successful interventions involving youth and adults, concerning multiple health problems and associated behaviors, and this has resulted in a framework based on science and achievement. Her clarity reflects this wealth of knowledge, and she gifts us with clear and cogent steps to making our communities healthier places. -- Cheryl L. Perry, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX, United States
Leslie Lytle has written a practical guide for how to plan theoretically sound, creative, and effective policies and interventions to promote healthy behaviors. Concrete examples take the reader through the various steps of the process. The book is systematic and engaging—highly recommended!
-- Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD, Executive Director, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
This is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and practitioners. The step-wise process for creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel interventions is clearly described and easy to follow. Dr. Lytle’s decades long experience with designing and evaluating multilevel interventions is made evident through her practical guidance and applied intervention examples.
-- Jess Haines, PhD, MHSc, RD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Designing Interventions to Promote Community Health: A Multilevel and Stepwise Approach
Chapter 1. A Multilevel Framework for Intervention Design: Overview of the Phases and Steps
Chapter 2. A Practical Guide to Using Health Behavior Theories to Design Multilevel Interventions
Chapter 3. The Plan Phase
Chapter 4. The Create Phase
Chapter 5. The Implement Phase
Chapter 6. The Evaluate Phase
Chapter 7. Using the Intervention Design Process to Guide the Adaptation of an Intervention
References
Index
About the Author
