Dissertation
Development of a health promotion model and the impact evaluation of the model on practitioners' health promotion practice
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast
2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00625
Abstract
Health promotion is a critical applied discipline aimed at addressing complex health issues and inequities in the health of people individually and collectively at local and global levels. Practitioners are expected to understand and respond to multiple interrelated determinants of health. This requires the ability to plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs that are more complex and multifaceted than ever, and to work explicitly with the values and principles important to modern health promotion. The influence of values and principles in shaping health promotion practice and research is well recognised. However, this research established a lack of consensus in the health promotion field about what the core health promotion values and principles were, a gap between those espoused in modern and traditional health promotion approaches, and limited guidance in existing health promotion models on how to use them in practice. A continuum of values and principles reflected in traditional through to modern health promotion approaches was developed. The need for a new model of health promotion that incorporated the values and principles of modern health promotion that practitioners could use to understand health and sustainability, and across needs assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of the health promotion process was established. The aim of this research was to develop a new model of modern health promotion underpinned by a values and principles system, and evaluate the impact of this model on health practitioners' health promotion practice. A constructivist epistemology, critical theory, and critical systems theory (CST) were the theoretical foundations that guided the research process, conducted over two phases.
Details
- Title
- Development of a health promotion model and the impact evaluation of the model on practitioners' health promotion practice
- Authors
- Jane A Gregg
- Contributors
- Desley Kassulke (Supervisor)
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00625
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Health - Public Health
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450393802621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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