FOR MY 'SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE THEORIES' COURSE
Public Health Final Essay Assignment.
This essay is designed to provide an opportunity for you toattach the new concepts and constructs you’ve learning in thiscourse to your own beliefs and experiences. The essay will be dueSunday, December 10th by 11:59 pm. In an essay format (no bulletpoints or incomplete sentences), write a maximum of five (5) pages(double spaced, 12 point font) addressing the following:
-Identification of one personal health behavior that you eitherpractice, or would like to change (i.e., exercise, smoking, alcoholconsumption, regular dental visits, regular physical checkups,stress reduction practices, etc.).
-Explain the role you believe that the larger “causes of thecauses (social determinants)” have in shaping that behavior?
-Explain the role that community level constructs you’ve learnedabout in this course have on that behavior?
-Explain the role that individual level constructs you’velearned about in this course have on that behavior?
-Discuss which constructs and levels of influence you believehad/have the strongest effect on your selected health behavior.
-Given your “analysis” of your own health behavior, whatintervention might help you maintain or change your selectedbehavior?
