Addressing Behavioral Risk Factors

To prepare:

• Select one of the behavioral risk factors from the Healthy
  Population 2010 Objectives (listed in Table 7.1 on p. 122 of the course
  text) that is of interest to you.
• Using the Walden Library and other credible websites, research how this risk factor is affecting your community or state.
• With your selected risk factor in mind, review the information on
  the Population-Based Intervention Model on pp. 132-137 in the course
  text, Health Care Delivery in the United States. In particular,
  focus on the concept of downstream, midstream, and upstream
  interventions. Consider at least one intervention that could be put into
  place at each stage. Write a description of the behavioral risk factor you selected and how this
  factor is impacting your community or state. Using the Population-Based
  Intervention Model, suggest at least one intervention that could be put
  into place at each stage (downstream, midstream, and upstream) to ensure
  that a health prevention program addressing the behavioral risk factor
  would have a greater chance at succeeding. Justify why each intervention
  you identified would be effective.