write a description of the behavioral risk factor you selected ( Alcohol Misuse/Risky Drinking) 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. Use population interventions below. Write a 2 page paper
Population-Based Intervention Model:
Downstream Interventions
1.Group and Individual Counseling
2.Patient Health Education Cognitive behavioral Interventions
3.Self-help programs and tailored Communications
4.Pharmacologic Treatments
Midstream Interventions
1.Worksite and community-based health promotions/disease prevention Programs
2.Health plan-based primary-care screening/interventions.
3.School-based youth prevention activities
4.Community-based interventions focused on defined at-risk population
Upstream Interventions
1.National public education/media campaigns
2.Economic incentives (excise, taxes on tobacco products, reimbursement for effective primary care, diets, and extensive counseling
3.Policies reducing access to unhealthy products (pricing, access, labeling)
4.Policies reducing the advertising and promotion of unhealthy products and behavior.
J.B. McKinlay, “The New Public Health Approach to Improving Physical Activity and Autonomy in Older Populations,” in Preparation for Aging, ed. E. Heikkinen (New York: Plenum Press, 1995), 87–103.
