Order Description

Part 1
Read carefully the two strategy articles you have been assigned to review. Based on this reading, succinctly address the following questions.

1. Provide a brief explanation/description of the strategy addressed in your allocated readings. (Environmental health promotion)
2. What are the values and assumptions underpinning the strategy?
3. Challenges and limitations if any of applying the strategy. (For this you would need to draw upon reading 1.2)
Gregg, J. & O’Hara, L. (2007). Values and principles evident in current health promotion practice. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 18(1), 7 – 11.
4. Advantages and disadvantages if any of applying the strategy.
The two strategy articles as assigned.
First paper
1.Parker, E., Baldwin, G., Israel, B., & Salinas, M. (2004). Application of health promotion theories and models for environmental health. Health Education &

Behaviour, 31 (4), 491-509.
Second paper
2.Schulz, A., Northridge, M. (2004). Social determinants of health: Implications for environmental health promotion. Health Education & Behaviour, 31 (4), 455-471.

Part 2
Referring particularly to the second paper of your two assigned readings (that which presents an application of the given strategy you have been assigned), choose one

of the following two discussion questions.
1) Discuss the extent to which health promoting policy is evident in underpinning this initiative:
a. to what extent is policy evident or specifically referred to; if so how does it support the intervention?
b. if underpinning policy is not evident or specifically referred to, what kind of policy would be relevant and supportive in enabling the intervention ?

2. discuss the relevance and appropriateness of the processes used in assessing the needs of the target population. In doing so draw upon elements of the planning

frameworks covered in the readings/lecture for week 8.
a. What process did the planners of the initiative use to assess the needs of the target group? *
b. Does the planning process help identify (or not) the social mechanisms involved in informing people’s actions that contribute to the health issues/concerns which

the intervention is designed to address, and the meanings ascribed to people’s actions?
c. What are the strengths of the needs assessment process used? How could the needs assessment be improved to better reflect best practice health promotion

process/principles and ensure the expressed needs of the target group were met in designing and implementing the initiative?
* if this is not evident in the article, extrapolate from the course notes and readings in week 8 and the lecture to provide suggestions as to what might have been an

appropriate course of action for this.