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Case: For this project, you will identify the intervention population, describe the specific health behavior and the potential health and public health impact. The result of this assignment is to describe the population, provides a rationale for selecting this particular population to focus your intervention on, discusses the health behavior, and explains why it is an important public health issue.

NB : Please, the health behavior I chose is "tobacco use" among Americans (age 18-60 yrs) and the public health issue I chose is "hypertension". I don't have any intervention for my selecting population and would like you to come up with intervention for my selecting population. Thank you.

Population Selection: All interventions are designed for a specific target population. This allows the public health professional to develop the correct tools and resources to increase the likelihood of successful and sustained behavior change. The description of the intervention population has to be specific, for example, if you want to propose an intervention to address risky sexual behaviors, the tools, resources and communication materials (as well as the modes for intervention delivery) may be different depending on the target group. The sexual behaviors for cisgender heterosexual females may be different than the sexual behaviors for cisgender gay males. Additionally, freshman students may require different types of intervention modalities when compared to seniors. Thus, you should consider age, class year, sex, gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disability (apparent and non-apparent), religion, income-level and other factors when selecting the target population for the health behavior intervention.

Health Behavior: Once you have selected the intervention population, describe the health behavior and why changing this health behavior will lead to improved health outcomes and discuss how changing these behaviors in this population will contribute to better public health. For this portion of the assignment, you will need to locate at least three primary and secondary resources to support your argument that these health behaviors negatively impact health and contribute to poor public health.

For example, if you decided to select helmet safety in sports:

The Alzheimer's Association (2023) states that traumatic brain injury (TBI) results from an impact to the head that disrupts normal brain function. TBI may affect a person's cognitive abilities, including learning and thinking skills. While TBIs occur at the individual level, the public health impact is significant, one study reported that, "every year, 50,000 people die with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and at least 5.3 million Americans live with long-term disabilities related to TBI" (Binder, et al 2005).

Acceptable sources include entities such as the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York State Department of Health, the Guttmacher Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation or peer-reviewed journals found through the library.

Literature Review of Behavior Change Intervention Description and Submission Instructions

A literature review provides an overview of previous research on a topic, and critically evaluates, classifies, and compares what has already been published on a particular topic. It allows you to synthesize and place into context the research and scholarly literature relevant to the topic.

Typically, literature reviews are designed to accomplish two main goals: 1) provide your readers an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic or idea; and 2) demonstrate how your intervention will fit into the larger field of public health.

The purpose of this literature review is for you to better understand the existing scientific knowledge about your chosen topic. You will compare, contrast and/or connect intervention studies and identify the approaches the researchers used to change health behaviors. You will also determine which of the interventions may be adopted for and adapted to your target population.

You will locate at least six peer-reviewed public health journal articles within the last ten years (2014-2023) about your health behavior. The journal articles should match the health behavior topic and your intervention population. Note: It may be difficult to find interventions that exactly match your target population and that is OKAY! Find similar populations, and discuss this in the write-up.

Find, select and analyze the literature (Your role is to evaluate what you've read.)

Skim the articles to get an idea of the purpose and content.

Group the articles into categories and sub-categories

Take notes: Define key terms, key statistics, identify useful quotes

Identify relationships between studies, trends and patterns

Note strengths and limitations of the research

Identify gaps in the literature, what has not been answered

Compare and contrast the studies!

Synthesis - THIS IS YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW WRITE UP

Objectives - Clearly describe the purpose of the literature review, and your objectives for completing the literature review.

Introduction - Give an overview of your topic and explain why it is an important public health issue, and describe your intervention population.

Review - The review contains the synthesis of the journal articles.

Describe the type of interventions, the study populations, and social and behavioral principles, models or theories used by the researchers.
Discuss and compare common trends and findings between studies (Were they successful or not in changing behaviors?)
Discuss the strengths and limitations of the studies.

Discussion - Discuss this intervention model and underlying theory that may work best for your population, and explain why you have selected this approach.