Planning Health Promotion Programs
An Intervention Mapping Approach
Chapter One
OVERVIEW OF INTERVENTION MAPPING
Reader Objectives
* Explain the rationale for a systematic approach to intervention development
* Describe an ecological approach to intervention development
* Explain the types of logic models that can be used to conceptualize various
phases of program development
* List the steps, processes, and products of Intervention Mapping
In this chapter we present the perspective from which Intervention Mapping
was conceived as well as its purpose. We also present a preview of the program-planning
framework, which is detailed in the remaining chapters.
The purpose of Intervention Mapping is to provide health promotion program
planners with a framework for effective decision making at each step in intervention
planning, implementation, and evaluation. Health promotion has been defined
as "Any combination of education, political, regulatory and organizational supports
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