Free QCE Health Flashcard Review

Recognition: identifying a health issue in a community; recognising patterns, gaps, disparities, or determinants requiring action; establishes the scope and priority of the health need.

Investigation: gathering data on the health issue using epidemiology, surveys, interviews, social-ecological factors; understanding root causes, determinant pathways, and community context; informs evidence-based planning.

Planning/Action: designing interventions using evidence and frameworks (social-ecological, diffusion, RE-AIM); engaging stakeholders; targeting determinants across community levels; implementing and evaluating for sustainability.

The degree to which an innovation is perceived to be better than the idea, practice, or product it supersedes; stronger relative advantage = faster adoption in communities.

The extent to which an innovation aligns with existing values, beliefs, experiences, and needs of individuals and communities; high compatibility removes adoption barriers.

The degree to which an innovation is perceived as easy to understand and use; simpler innovations are adopted faster; complexity is the main barrier to community adoption.

The extent to which an innovation can be tried on a limited basis before full commitment; allows communities to test feasibility, effectiveness, and fit without risk.

The degree to which results and benefits of an innovation are visible to others in the community; visible outcomes increase adoption likelihood through social influence.

Community members become aware of an innovation's existence and function; exposure through media, opinion leaders, or peers; foundation for subsequent adoption stages.

Community forms attitudes toward the innovation; influenced by perceived relative advantage, compatibility, peer approval, and trusted sources; moves from awareness to interest.

Community chooses to adopt or reject the innovation; shaped by trialability, perceived risks, evidence of effectiveness, and organisational/policy support.

Community puts the innovation into practice; requires resources, training, support systems, and adaptation to local context; determines sustained uptake.

Community reinforces the adoption decision through use, evaluation of outcomes, and normalistion; sustained implementation and integration into routine practice.

Reach: assessing what proportion and characteristics of the target community participate in the intervention; measures community-level engagement and accessibility.

Effectiveness: measuring intended health outcomes and whether the intervention achieves its goals in real-world community settings; determines impact on health determinants.

Adoption: assessing organisational or policy uptake of the intervention; measures willingness of community systems, organisations, and stakeholders to support implementation.

Implementation: evaluating fidelity, consistency, and adaptation of the intervention across community settings; assesses whether the intervention is delivered as designed or appropriately modified.

Maintenance: assessing sustained long-term benefits and community institutionalisation of the intervention; ensures outcomes persist and practices are embedded in community systems.

Individual (personal beliefs, knowledge, skills), Interpersonal (family, peers, social networks), Organisational (workplaces, schools, services), Community (local resources, norms, policies), Societal (national laws, media, culture, economic systems).

Personal factors including knowledge, skills, attitudes, health beliefs, socioeconomic status, and behaviours; influences individual health choices and capacities within community contexts.