Health Education and Promotion Journal Article Review

Question

This assignment is based on your reaction to your reading of four assigned professional journal articles. The reaction paper should not be a summary of the articles — I have a copy of all the articles. It should include your general reaction to the content of the articles, including your reaction to the information as it relates to health education and promotion in the context of your personal, academic, and professional experiences. Each article should be addressed to some degree in the reaction paper. You should also address any common themes that you find among the articles. It should not be consecutive “mini-reaction” papers for each article but one paper that addresses the individual and collective messages of the articles. You may address some articles in your reaction paper more extensively than others. You may also connect content in the articles to class discussions or other assignments.

Format

Your reaction paper should be 4-6 typed, double-spaced pages. Please include your name at the top of the reaction paper.

Journal Article Listing for the Article Review Assignment

These articles offer varied perspectives on public health history, current practices, and issues that are concerning in the immediate or long-term future. Note that the articles are not presented in alphabetical order but rather by suggested order for reading — reading the articles in this suggested sequence should enhance the flow of your reading. The first three commentaries present historical challenges in public health, including the evolution of the term (and approach) of public health education to the use of social determinants; the barriers to implementing “upstream actions” in public health; and an “invitation to debate” the philosophical foundations of public health.

The fourth and fifth articles, both authored by Brownson, examine evidence-based public health practice at two different points in time. The first addresses evidence-based public health as a fundamental concept; the second shares the challenges of the implementation of evidence-based public health. In the final article, the author shares some of the limitations to predicting future challenges to global health and offers an alternative framework to guide health research and policy over the traditional predictive models of today.

Download the following articles from Blackboard if you have not already:

Green, L. W., & Allegrante, J. P. (2011). Healthy people 1980-2020: Raising the ante decennially or just the name from public health education to health promotion to social determinants? Health Education & Behavior, 38(6), 558–562.

Amaro H. (2014). The action is upstream: Place-based approaches for achieving population health and health equity. American Journal of Public Health, 104(6), 964.

Nijhuis, H. G., & van der Maesen, L. J. (1994). The philosophical foundations of public health: An invitation to debate. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 48(1), 1-3.

Brownson, R. C., Fielding, J. E., & Maylahn, C. M. (2009). Evidence-based public health: A fundamental concept for public health practice. Annual Review of Public Health, 30, 175-201.

Brownson, R. C., Fielding, J. E., & Green, L. W. (2017). Building capacity for evidence-based public health: Reconciling the pulls of practice and the push of research. Annual Review of Public Health, 39, 27-53.

Alonso, W. J., McCormick, B. J., Miller, M. A., Schuck-Paim, C., & Asrar, G. R. (2015). Beyond crystal balls: Crosscutting solutions in global health to prepare for an unpredictable future. BMC Public Health, 15, 955. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-2285-1