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Environmental indicators: a tool for evaluating community-based health-promotion programs.

A Cheadle1, E Wagner, T Koepsell

  • 1Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
|November 1, 1992
PubMed
Summary

Environmental indicators offer a novel approach to evaluating community health programs. These measures assess community environments to understand and influence health behaviors, providing valuable insights for health promotion.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Promotion
  • Environmental Health

Background:

  • Community-based health promotion programs require effective evaluation methods.
  • Existing community-level measures include statistical aggregates of individual data.
  • A gap exists in evaluating the environmental factors targeted by health interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce environmental indicators as a key component for evaluating community-based health promotion programs.
  • To categorize community-level health behavior measures.
  • To highlight the utility of environmental indicators in assessing intervention impacts.

Main Methods:

  • Categorization of community-level health behavior measures into three types: individual-disaggregated, individual-aggregated, and environmental indicators.

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  • Focus on environmental indicators derived from community environment observations.
  • Examples provided for tobacco use and dietary behavior indicators.

    • Main Results:

    • Environmental indicators represent a distinct and valuable category of community-level measures.
    • These indicators capture aspects of the physical, legal, social, and economic environment.
    • Environmental indicators reflect and influence individual health attitudes and behaviors.

    Conclusions:

    • Environmental indicators are a crucial tool for the evaluation of community-based health promotion.
    • They provide a means to measure intermediate environmental changes targeted by interventions.
    • The use of environmental indicators can enhance the assessment of program effectiveness in modifying health behaviors.