Walden HLTH6475 Module 1 Discussion Latest 2024

HLTH6475 Prgm Plan, Implement & Eval

Module 1 Discussion

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY VERSUS VICTIM BLAMING IN HEALTH PROMOTION

Part of what makes a discussion a discussion and not a lecture is the back-and-forth, in-depth, animated engagement of at least two people. If you start a topic and your colleagues are not engaging in it, consider what you can do to get the conversation going. Include something that would elicit further thoughts and different opinions from colleagues. Remember that discussion supports a discovery learning experience that facilitates a deeper understanding of content from multiple viewpoints. To ensure that your contributions to the Discussion posts are timely, relevant, insightful, and engaging, keep the following in mind as you post:

•   Engage in the Discussion as early as possible and continue to post throughout the module.

•   Design your posts to elicit multiple points of view from your colleagues.

•   Validate your assertions with references and links to credible sources so that your colleagues can check and read the source(s) for themselves.

Academic discussions provide a forum to share insights with your colleagues as you encounter new content. Discussion supports a discovery learning experience that facilitates a deeper understanding of content from multiple viewpoints. To ensure that your contributions to the Discussion posts and responses are timely, relevant, insightful, and engaging, keep the following in mind as you post:

•   Be sure to review and follow the Discussion Rubric.

•   Engage in the Discussion as early as possible and continue to post throughout the module.

•   Design your posts to elicit multiple points of view from your colleagues.

•   Validate your assertions with references to credible sources.

Health promotion and disease prevention are based on the idea that optimal health should be promoted and disease should be prevented wherever possible. The focus on preventing disease often leads to tension between encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their own health, on the one hand, and making them feel as if they are somehow responsible for causing their health condition, on the other hand.

To prepare for this Discussion, review the section “The Fuzzy Aspects of Planning” (pp. 14–19) presented in your Issel et al., (2022) course text, and the methods utilized in planning a health promotion program. Consider the assumptions of health promotion on which these methods are based, paying particular attention to the “Paradoxes and Assumptions” sections.

With these thoughts in mind:

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

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WEEKLY RESOURCES

BY DAY 5

Start the Discussion by describing the challenges that program planners face when trying to promote the idea of personal responsibility with regard to health behavior while also trying to avoid placing the blame on individuals for their health status. Is it possible to do both? Explain why or why not.

This Discussion will be available from Day 1 through Day 7 of this module. While you are required to submit your initial post by Day 5, you are encouraged to post early. Once you have submitted your initial post, start responding to your colleagues by no later than Day 5. Continue to interact frequently with your colleagues through Day 7, supporting your responses with credible sources.

Support your work with specific citations from this module’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.