Health Education Intervention

Health Education Intervention

Multiple approach to community health (MATCH) model, which was introduced by Simons-Morton, Greene and Gottlieb in the late 1980s, is considered to be very comprehensive and extensive for practical analysis. The model is not very popular among many scholars thus making it not much available in many texts. However, the paper is concerned about the reasons that make it the most preferred method of public health education intervention in the case of substance abuse (Simons-Morton, Greene & Gottlieb, 1995, p. 49).

The MATCH model is applicable to education on substance abuse since behavioral, environmental risk and the protective factors for disease or injury are known and the general priorities of the situations can be determined. Another thing that this model includes is ecological planning, which influences how effective the method will be (Linnan et al, 2005, p. 310). The reasons behind using the model are that it is arranged into specific categories and strategic components. The benefit about the program is that the processes used in the model are cyclical and supportive to management of substance abuse training. The model delivers organizational performance that targets the needs of individual workers (Larsen & Merlo, 2005, p. 83).

The MATCH model has five phases that help it be the most effective method of conducting public health education intervention on substance abuse. The initial phase is the goal selection. The first step is selecting health status goals by looking at the prevalence, perceived importance and availability of the programmatic resources; this facilitates the process of determining the prevalence of abuse. Another aspect that makes the MATCH model helpful in the interventio...

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...arations needed during implementation of the project while the final phase is meant for overall evaluation.

Works Cited

Diez-Roux, A. V. (2000). Multilevel analysis in public health research. Annual Review of Public Health, 21(1), 171-192.

Larsen, K., & Merlo, J. (2005). Appropriate assessment of neighborhood effects on individual health: Integrating random and fixed effects in multilevel logistic regression. American Journal of Epidemiology, 161(1), 81-88.

Linnan, L. A., Sterba, K. R., Lee, A. M., Bontempi, J. B., Yang, J., & Crump, C. (2005). Planning and the professional preparation of health educators: Implications for teaching, research, and practice. Health Promotion Practical, 6(3), 308-319.

Simons-Morton, B. G., Greene, W. H., & Gottlieb, N. H. (1995). Introduction to health education and health promotion. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.