1. Pick one of the following bullet points. Come up with a creative forum title to draw your peers to your response. All responses should be 500 words maximum. Remember to comment on at least two other threads. – Imagine that a health promotion program intends to promote the use of motorcycle helmets in a state that absolutely refuses to pass laws mandating this behavior. Program objectives are established and theory selection follows. One year after the program was implemented, a 30% increase in helmet use is observed. Is it reasonable to expect that a similar degree of success, using the same selected theories and approaches, would occur in a different state? Think carefully about your answer and defend it to a colleague who answered differently. – “With literally hundreds of potential scenarios in health promotion, we suggest that theory should be applied only as needed and never just to provide a rationale for why the program should work.” This logic implies that an effective health promotion program does not necessarily have to be theory-based. Please take a position on this statement and defend your position using principles provided in Chapter 2. 2. Craft a thread responding to the following bullet point. Come up with a creative forum title to draw your peers to your response. All responses should be 500 words maximum. Remember to comment on at least two other threads. Which of the first five phases in the Precede-Proceed model would you consider to be the most vulnerable to “political whims”? Explain why and provide an example if possible.
