This book articulates a clear four-phase process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions using a framework focusing on determinants from the individual, physical, and social environments.

It breaks down each phase into detailed yet easy-to-follow steps that review important procedures, like identifying a behaviorally based problem within a community, choosing the underlying behavioral determinants to be targeted by the intervention, selecting intervention components and strategies, and evaluating outcomes to improve and further disseminate the intervention.

Guidelines for engaging community members in the entire process, building teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and the importance of formative and process evaluation are reviewed as well. Also presented are instructions for adapting interventions for new communities.

Feature boxes highlight key information and practical takeaways for students and interventionists. Detailed case examples that highlight various health promotion efforts bring the four-phase design process to life, including a recurring example about a school-based intervention to reduce student consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages that follows the process from beginning to end.

About the Author
Leslie Ann Lytle, PhD, is an adjunct professor in the department of health behavior at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. For over 25 years, her research and community-based interventions have focused on the health promotion of youth and young adults, particularly preventing obesity and promoting healthful diets and physical activity through school, family, and environmental approaches. She has been a principal investigator on several large National Institutes of Health multilevel intervention studies, including CATCH, TEENS, TAAG and CHOICES and is recognized as an expert in designing intervention studies both in the United States and internationally.

Reviews
Dr. Lytle's extensive experience in designing, developing, and evaluating multilevel behavioral interventions is the foundation for this important and timely book for researchers and practitioners. She has been the lead on many successful interventions involving youth and adults, concerning multiple health problems and associated behaviors, and this has resulted in a framework based on science and achievement. Her clarity reflects this wealth of knowledge, and she gifts us with clear and cogent steps to making our communities healthier places. -- Cheryl L. Perry, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX, United States
Leslie Lytle has written a practical guide for how to plan theoretically sound, creative, and effective policies and interventions to promote healthy behaviors. Concrete examples take the reader through the various steps of the process. The book is systematic and engaging-highly recommended!
-- Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD, Executive Director, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
This is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and practitioners. The step-wise process for creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel interventions is clearly described and easy to follow. Dr. Lytle's decades long experience with designing and evaluating multilevel interventions is made evident through her practical guidance and applied intervention examples.
-- Jess Haines, PhD, MHSc, RD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada



Book Information
ISBN 9781433836503
Author Leslie Ann Lytle
Format Paperback
Page Count 261
Imprint American Psychological Association
Publisher American Psychological Association