Cdc Ecological Framework

In this week lecture, we compile the different level of approaches to target behavior change. We reviewed behavioral change approach with the primary goal of modifying individual behavior through cognitions by the provision of education and raising awareness. We also reviewed self-empowerment approach with the focus on helping individuals make choices through participatory learning techniques and increases one control over physical, social and internal environments. Last, we introduce collective action or community development approach. This approach looks to improve health by addressing the social determinates of health. This approach instead of targeting only individuals or individual interpersonal relationship, it targets multilevel factors that affects the health of individuals such as policy, laws,

The CDC ecological framework states that health intervention should target individual, relationship, community, and societal. Similar to the CDC ecological model Mcleroy model has the following levels: Intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community and public policy. Although, both the CDC ecological and the Mcleroy model are both very self-explanatory, the first person to bring about the idea of health intervention on a ecological framework was Urie Bronfenbrenner. He found an interaction of several ecological levels with children development and behavior. First level he found, microsystem, which is an immediate environment a person operate such as parent, school and day care. Second level, mesosystem is the interaction of two-microsystem environment such as parents and schoolteacher or day care. Third, exosystem is social system that encompasses both meso and microsystem. An example of exosystem would be school districts, department of children services. Four, macrosystem is the larger cultural context such as societal/cultural norm. Lastly, Chronosystem is multiple systems operating over