California State University, Chico

Department of Health and Community Services

 

Health Education Planning, Theory and Practice (HCSV 471-01) #6677

Course Syllabus – Fall 2007

 

Instructor: Mary Portis, DrPH

Office: Butte 703C

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 8:30-9:30 a.m., Wednesday 9:00-12:-00

Phone/Voice Mail: 898-4994

E-Mail:mportis@csuchico.edu (note: when e-mailing me, please put HCSV 471 on the message line)

Fax: 530-898-5107

Mailbox: Butte 607

Text: Edberg, M. (2007) Essentials of Health Behavior: Social and Behavioral Theory in Public Health. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.  ISBN: 13:978-0-7637-3796-2

 

Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) Responsibilities practiced in the course:

1. Assess individual and community needs for health education.

2. Plan effective health education programs.

3. Implement health education programs.

4.  Interpret concepts, purposes, and theories in health education.

 

Specific Course Objectives:

·         Analyze the multiple factors, transactions and interactions that influence adoption or decisions for health behavior.

·         Analyze theories used in the field of health education to compile a personal set of behavior change tools.

·         Describe the reasoning behind behavioral change theories.

·         Apply behavioral change theories to health education problems, populations and programs.

·         Design and implement a community health behavior intervention.

·         Design and implement an individual health behavior intervention.

Course Schedule

Week 1

Tuesday, Aug 28                 Course overview, requirements and methods, student profiles Team building, Reading Assignment, Chapter 1, “The Links between Health and Behavior”

 

Thursday, Aug 30                Introduction to Health Education Theory, Reading Assignment, Chapter 2 “Health Issues and Behavior” and Chapter 3: Social/Behavioral Theory and Its Roots”

Week 2

Tuesday Sept. 4                   In-depth directions for semester projects, Models of Individual Behavior Change

Thursday, Sept. 6              Baseline Measurement, Goals; Self-Directed Behavior Principles, Tailoring

 

Week 3

Tuesday, Sept 11                 Principles of Program Planning; Antecedents and Behaviors;

Thursday, Sept 13                Intervention Planning, Consequences, Problem Solving, Relapse, Maintenance, Termination, Reading Assignment Chapter 4, “Individual Health Behavior Theories”

Week 4

Tuesday, Sept. 18                Health Belief Model, Self-Efficacy

Thursday Sept. 20                Theory of Planned Behavior, work on community intervention

 

Week 5

Tuesday, Sept. 25                Transtheoretical Model

Thursday, Sept. 27               Empowerment

 

Week 6

Tuesday, Oct. 2                    Final Preparation for community intervention

Wednesday, October 3       Chico Health and Safety Expo – Community Intervention 4:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 4                  Evaluation of Community Intervention, Writing Program Goals and Objectives )outcome, Process, Product)

Week 7

Tuesday, Oct. 9                    Exam #1

Thursday, Oct. 11                Social Cognitive Theory

 

Week 8

Tuesday, Oct. 16                  Social Cognitive Theory, Reading Chapter 5 “Social, Cultural, and Environmental Theories”

Thursday, Oct. 18                Social Marketing Theories, reading assignment, Chapter 10 “Application of Theory: Communication Campaigns””

Week 9

Tuesday, Oct. 23                  Social Support Theories, Social Network Assignment directions, reading Assignment, Chapter 6

Thursday, Oct. 25                Stress and Coping Theories, reading assignment Chapter 12” Application of Theory: High Risk and Special Populations”

Week 10

Tuesday, Oct. 30                  Social Network Assignment Due, Stress and Coping Theories

Thursday, Nov. 1                 Bringing the Program Together, reading assignment, Chapter 14, “Culture, Diversity and Health Disparities: Are Current Theories Relevant?”            

Week 11

Tuesday, Nov. 6                   PRECEDE-PROCEED

Thursday, Nov. 8                 PRECEDE-PROCEED

 

Week 12

Tuesday, Nov. 13                 Community Organization, reading assignment, Chapter 7” Doing Something About It: The Move from Theory to Practice”

Thursday, Nov. 15               Community Organization, reading assignment, Chapter 8, “Communities and Populations as Focus for Health Promotion Programs”

 

FALL BREAK Nov. 19-23 – NO CLASSES

 

Week 13

Tuesday, Nov. 27                 Theory-Based Program Plan Presentations

Thursday, Nov. 29               Theory-Based Program Plan Presentations

 

Week 14

Tuesday, Dec. 4                   Theory-Based Program Plan Presentations

Thursday, Dec. 6                  Theory-Based Program Plan Presentations

 

Week 15

Tuesday, Dec. 11                 Theory-Based Program Plan Presentations

Thursday, Dec. 13                Course Summary; Building a Professional Tool Box

 

Thursday, Dec. 20               Final Exam            10:00-11:50

 

 

 

 

Course Requirements and Points

Theory-based Health Behavior Program Plan                 100

Exam #1                                                                                  75

Final Exam #2                                                                                        75

Social Network Assignment                                                               15

Community Intervention and Reflection #1                                     30

Attendance and Participation                                                            30                                                                           

 

Guidelines:

Be on time for class.

If you need to miss class, call or e-mail your absence.

All assignments are due at the beginning of class. Late assignments lose one grade for each day late. An assignment handed in at the end of class is considered one day late.