M 4225 Science of Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

What is Health???

Gorin and Arnold

G&A : Healthy Behaviors

Healthy People 2000

Health People 2010

Criteria for Health Promotion Programs

Health Promotion Theories

Assumptions about individual-level determinant theories

Process of change….

Change may be facilitated or ‘pushed’ by crisis….

Antecedents of crisis theory…

Other emerging models

"food for thought……."